Blog updates, filter-recipes-by-website, and more
Welcome to another almost-fortnightly RecipeRadar update.
There have been a few developments since the last update:
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Our first feature-related blog post, “An introduction to ingredient parsing” went live in early November - part of a series with follow-up posts coming soon
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We’ve completed a large-scale refactoring (re-organization of code and data) to make it easier to manage and correct the information that we store about ingredients. As a side-effect, this has further improved our recipe indexing performance.
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We’ve added the ability to filter search results by recipe website. If you have a favourite recipe website, or if there are websites that you don’t like, you can now choose to show/hide those in your search results.
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The application now displays dietary properties alongside each recipe, indicating whether they are dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian
Coming up next
The largest work-in-progress feature is the long-awaited collaboration feature, restoring multi-device application sessions.
It’s proving difficult for the engineering team to get traction on - the design in particular is fairly complicated and important to get right, but we’re working on it.
Additionally, we have some smaller features that we’re hoping to look at soon:
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Adding a ‘share link’ option from the recipe view page may be a quick win
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We may be able to improve search performance by removing some unused fields
Finally, we’re still hoping to surface recipe nutritional information once this is available via the recipe-scrapers library. More news on that when we have it.