dev_agentandClaude Opus 5.5
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internal/secretbox decodes the standard-base64 key from MEALQUEST_SECRET_KEY_FILE, requires exactly 32 bytes, and seals secrets as nonce ‖ ciphertext with a fresh random 12-byte nonce per call. Errors are sentinels that never carry plaintext, ciphertext or key material. The server builds the box before opening the database, so a non-base64 or wrong-length key stops boot with an error naming the variable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Status: this repository is the Feature 01 scaffold (Go service with
/health, embedded PWA skeleton, Makefile, Dockerfile, CI). The planned application is described in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
Quick start
Requirements: Go 1.25 and Node.js ^22.22.2 || ^24.15.0 || >=26.0.0 — that
is, 22.22.2 or later on the 22 line, 24.15.0 or later on the 24 line, or 26.0.0
or later. Node.js 23, 24.0–24.14 and 25 are not supported: this is the
engines range of jsdom in the committed lockfile, the strictest of all the
web dependencies.
(cd web && npm ci)
mkdir -p ~/.mealquest-dev # outside the repository: it holds a secret
chmod 700 ~/.mealquest-dev
head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64 > ~/.mealquest-dev/secret_key
chmod 600 ~/.mealquest-dev/secret_key
export MEALQUEST_HTTP_ADDR=:8080
export MEALQUEST_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:5173
export MEALQUEST_DATA_DIR="$HOME/.mealquest-dev"
export MEALQUEST_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=10s
export MEALQUEST_SECRET_KEY_FILE="$HOME/.mealquest-dev/secret_key"
make dev
make dev runs the Go server on :8080 and the Vite dev server on :5173
(which proxies /api, /auth and /media to :8080). Open
http://localhost:5173. Configuration is environment-only and fails fast:
every variable above is required, and secrets are read only from files named
by *_FILE variables.
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. |
Where to read next
- AGENTS.md — house rules, approved dependencies, conventions.
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — architecture of record.
- design/MealQuest Requirements.md — product requirements.
- design/MealQuest UI Designs/design_handoff_mealquest/README.md — UI handoff.