MealQuest/README.md

MealQuest

MealQuest is a mobile-first Progressive Web App for weekly dinner planning for one household. The household lists the dinners it makes regularly, an AI assistant suggests new dinners to try (swipe "Try it" or "Pass"), and the app builds a weekly plan, pushes it to Google Calendar, and generates a shopping list grouped by dinner, kept as a browsable weekly history. It ships as a single Go service with the React PWA embedded in the binary.

Production runs at https://mealquest.cubecraftlabs.com for one household, signed in through Authentik.

Stack

• Backend: Go 1.25 (CGO_ENABLED=0, one static binary), chi router, SQLite through modernc.org/sqlite with sqlc queries and embedded migrations, Authentik OIDC, log/slog. AI calls go to an OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic or Ollama endpoint over plain HTTP; recipes come from SearXNG or Brave search and the recipe page's schema.org data. Google Calendar, Google Chat and Web Push are the integrations.
• Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Vite, React Router 7, TanStack Query 5, vite-plugin-pwa, CSS Modules over the design tokens; tests with Vitest, Testing Library and jsdom.
• Deployment: a Docker Compose stack (the service, Litestream replication to the NAS, a SearXNG sidecar) behind Traefik, with systemd units for the firewall, nightly media backup and the automated deploy of main.

The approved dependency list is in AGENTS.md; nothing else is added without the owner's approval.

Running it locally

The developer setup (prerequisites, Authentik and Google clients, the MEALQUEST_* environment, make dev and the optional SearXNG sidecar) is runbook information and lives in CTXD: project mealquest, file RUNBOOKS.MD, section "Local development". Configuration is read only from the environment, and the service refuses to start, naming every missing or invalid variable.

Common commands

Command	What it does
make dev	Go server plus Vite dev server.
make test	gofmt check, go vet, go test -race, web typecheck and tests.
make build	Build the PWA, embed it, build the static binary bin/mealquest.
make docker	Build the container image from the root Dockerfile.
make sqlc-check	Regenerate internal/db with sqlc and fail if it drifted.

Deploying and operating

deploy/RUNBOOK.md is the deploy runbook: build, ship and restart, verifying the deployed version, rollback and the automated deploy. Database restore, the boot configuration and other host procedures are in CTXD: project mealquest, file RUNBOOKS.MD. Only overseer releases, by merging dev into main.

Where to read next

• AGENTS.md — house rules, approved dependencies, the quality floor every change must pass, repository layout, conventions.
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — architecture of record.
• design/MealQuest Requirements.md — product requirements.
• design/MealQuest UI Designs/design_handoff_mealquest/README.md — UI handoff.