recipe-manager/frontend/README.md

Recipe Manager - Frontend

React + TypeScript frontend for the Recipe Manager application.

Tech Stack

• React 19 - UI framework
• TypeScript - Type safety
• Vite - Build tool and dev server
• React Router 7 - Client-side routing

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start dev server (http://localhost:5173)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Preview production build
npm run preview

# Lint code
npm run lint

Project Structure

src/
├── components/     # Reusable UI components
├── hooks/          # Custom React hooks
├── pages/          # Route pages
├── services/       # API client and business logic
├── types/          # TypeScript interfaces
├── App.tsx         # Root component
└── main.tsx        # Application entry point

Next Steps

• Configure Tailwind CSS
• Set up React Router
• Create recipe list page
• Create recipe detail/edit page
• Implement cook mode UI

Architecture

See /ARCHITECTURE.md for full system architecture and patterns.

Visual Assets + Fallbacks

• Visual asset definitions live in src/assets/visualAssets.ts.
• The homepage hero uses a fallback chain: bundled hero.png first, then /images/hero-fallback.svg.
• Keep fallback assets lightweight (SVG preferred) and store browser-served fallbacks under public/images/.
• Any new UI-critical image should follow the same fallback pattern to avoid broken-image regressions in production.