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Plan Meals and Recipes with the Spoonacular API in JavaScript

Delve into using the Spoonacular API in JavaScript. Gain insights into fetching recipe data, integrating widgets, and building a React app with a Node Express backend.

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21 Lessons

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Delve into using the Spoonacular API in JavaScript. Gain insights into fetching recipe data, integrating widgets, and building a React app with a Node Express backend.

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Course Overview

The Spoonacular REST API is an excellent service for planning meals and deciding recipes according to a nutritional diet plan. It has several use cases due to its vast food database. This API is a perfect fit if you are planning to integrate it with a recipe application, meal planner, diet tracker, or even a virtual personal assistant. You will start this course by first creating your account with Spoonacular and getting the necessary credentials to make API calls. Next, you will learn how to use the node-...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of the Spoonacular API

The ability to find and retrieve popular recipes for available ingredients

The ability to fetch a grocery list of items by a recipe

The ability to look for a recipe with dietary constraints

Working knowledge of Spoonacular's various interactive widgets

Hands-on experience integrating the Spoonacular API into a React application

An understanding of the Spoonacular API

Course Content

Introduction

2 Lessons

Get familiar with accessing and utilizing the Spoonacular API for recipe data in JavaScript.

Introduction to the Course

Getting Started with the Spoonacular API

Recipes

4 Lessons

Unpack the core of using Spoonacular API to search, fetch, and analyze recipes efficiently.

Searching Recipes

Fetching Recipe Suggestions

Fetching Recipe Information

Getting Recipe Attributes

Ingredients

3 Lessons

Explore searching, computing amounts, and finding substitutes for ingredients using Spoonacular API.

Fetch Ingredients

Compute Ingredient Amounts

Find Ingredient Substitutes

Grocery Products

2 Lessons

Apply your skills to search and fetch detailed grocery product data using the Spoonacular API.

Search Grocery Products

Fetch Grocery Products

Spoonacular Widgets

6 Lessons

Take a closer look at Spoonacular API widgets for nutritional, taste, equipment, ingredient, and pricing data.

Recipe Nutrition Widget

Grocery Product Nutrition Widget

Recipe Taste Widget

Recipe Equipment Widget

Recipe Ingredients Widget

Recipe Price Breakdown Widget

Spoonacular API Integration in React

1 Lessons

Follow the process of integrating Spoonacular API in React, handling CORS, and using hooks.

Demo Application

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Piece together the parts of Spoonacular API integration in JavaScript for recipes and groceries.

Wrapping Up!

Appendix

2 Lessons

Learn how to use Spoonacular API parameters for meal planning and recipe customization.

Additional Request Parameters

Supported Parameter Values

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