Free
4.3
Beginner
4h
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.
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-fetch library to fetch data for recipes, ingredients, and grocery products. Then, you’ll learn to use Spoonacular’s various interactive widgets. You’ll finish the course by getting hands-on experience with a React application integrated with the Spoonacular API with a Node Express server as the backend.
By the end of this course, you will have gained mastery over using the Spoonacular API with JavaScript. You’ll also be able to integrate the Spoonacular API in your next project.
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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
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TAKEAWAY SKILLS
Content
1.
Introduction
2 Lessons
Get familiar with accessing and utilizing the Spoonacular API for recipe data in JavaScript.
2.
Recipes
4 Lessons
Unpack the core of using Spoonacular API to search, fetch, and analyze recipes efficiently.
3.
Ingredients
3 Lessons
Explore searching, computing amounts, and finding substitutes for ingredients using Spoonacular API.
4.
Grocery Products
2 Lessons
Apply your skills to search and fetch detailed grocery product data using the Spoonacular API.
5.
Spoonacular Widgets
6 Lessons
Take a closer look at Spoonacular API widgets for nutritional, taste, equipment, ingredient, and pricing data.
8.
Appendix
2 Lessons
Learn how to use Spoonacular API parameters for meal planning and recipe customization.
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