Cook with intention, eat well.

Savour is a dark-themed iOS cooking app built with Expo/React Native and a local Express backend that normalizes recipes from MealDB.

• Expo SDK 54
• React Native + expo-router
• Node.js + Express
• MealDB API
• Gemini API (optional endpoint)

• app/ - Expo Router screens and navigation
• assets/ - fonts and app/splash icons
• backend/server.js - scraper-style backend and recipe endpoints
• constants/, context/, data/ - app config, state, and recipe logic

• Node.js 22.x
• npm
• Expo Go (for iOS device testing)

Create your local env file:

cp .env.example .env

Then fill values in .env:

• EXPO_PUBLIC_GEMINI_API_KEY
• GEMINI_API_KEY
• EXPO_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL (example: http://<YOUR_MAC_LAN_IP>:5050)
• PORT (default 5050)

npm ci

Terminal 1 (backend):

npm run server

Terminal 2 (app):

npx expo start -c

npx tsc --noEmit
node --check backend/server.js

Runtime health check (with backend running):

curl -i 'http://localhost:5050/recipes/discover?limit=2'

• GET /recipes/discover
• GET /recipes/:id
• POST /rewrite (Gemini-dependent)

• Submit this GitHub repository publicly.
• Do not commit .env.
• .env.example is included for judges.