food library

[tohuwabohu-io]

Being able to define, search for and maybe share a pre-set of things I regularly eat would be convenient feature on top of adding raw calories.

• might need to touch fulltext search for that: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.html
• a whole set of modals will be needed
• a whole set of REST endpoints will be needed

This is just a brainstorm placeholder and not something I can go into blindly, it will require a lot of planning.

[tohuwabohu-io]

I think the JSON/JSONB column types of postgres could be utilized here. The structure could roughly contain 3 parts:

1. Ingredients (which could link to other food items)
2. Nutrional value (calories, micro- and macronutrients)
3. A list of instructions

Maintenance of food items wouldn't be part of librefit itself, but maybe some external tool to avoid making stuff complicated with a different set of roles per user. librefit would access the data read-only.