Clients¶

You can use already build FE clients together with the API. Currently, there are only a Web Application FE written in Python that can be deployed with Docker.

Web application overview¶

You can follow the link of the official GitHub repository of the project here ➡ follow me

Note

The FE client installation is independant from the ForkApi installation you don't need to follow the API installation instructions!

Installation¶

Info

To install the application you can use the SSL certificates that you own for your domain or just using domain without SSL.
To install on a home local server follwo the local deploy method.
The no SSL method can be handy when there an SSL certs setup by default by the hosting service or you just use the application locally.
For installing on RaspberyPi you need to change in the docker compose file for the image for the be service to mikebgrep/forkapi:arm64

Lets begin¶

You need to add all environment variables in .env file after you copied it from .env.example.

.env

# Secrets more info in documentation
DJANGO_SECRET=
X_AUTH_HEADER=

# URL for the BE API requests must start with protocol http:// or https://
SERVICE_BASE_URL=

# Smtp settings
EMAIL_HOST=
EMAIL_HOST_USER=
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=
EMAIL_PORT=
EMAIL_USE_TLS=

###### Domains ######
# ! This two must be without protocol
# localhost for homeserver can be used

# Domain name for the fork.recipes application
# ! subdomain should be used as api.host.
DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX=

# Domain name for the forkapi be application
DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API=

# Pagination for the recipe search endpoints
PAGINATION_PAGE_SIZE=

# Host address for the frontend to access media with protocol eg. https:.. (minimum two) with separated by comma
CORS_ALLOWED_HOSTS=https://localhost,http://localhost

# Scrape functionality make sure to add '' for the API KEY
OPENAI_API_KEY=
OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini

There are comments for each section, but I will explain quick.

DJANGO_SECRET and X_AUTH_HEADER are mandatory as Django secret can be generated online from this tool ➡ tool and the header should be something difficult to guest as a GUID ➡ tool
SERVICE_BASE_URL is the url that is used from the front end to communicate with the BE it's same as DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API but with http:// or https:// protocol.
Next are SMTP settings you can follow your email provider for the values I can say that only is used for reset password functionality so you may be will not need it
Domains section is for the NGINX proxy configuration files DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX should be the base url of the fork.recipes application, DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API should be the subdomain normally starting with api. for the BE forkapi service.

Warning

DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX and DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API shouldn't include protocol as http:// or https:// they should be plain.

CORS_ALLOWED_HOSTS are the front end domain names
OPENAI_API_KEY is the API KEY from OpenAI for the scraping recipe functionality
OPENAI_MODEL is the default model at this stage the gpt-4o-mini is most cost-efficient and is working ok for the scraping task

Read for local deploy without domain name

If you want to setup the application only for local use and you doesn't have a domain you can edit the forkrecipes.nginx.template file and change the port for listen at line 21 for the API, after this you need to add the port in nginx service in the docker-compose.yml file.This way you can login to admin from the localhost and the port number. Keep in mind that SERVICE_BASE_URL envirument variable should be also with the newly added port and the local ip of the host eg. http://192.168.x.x:port.

docer-compose.yml nginx service

nginx:
  build:
    context: .
    dockerfile: nginx/Dockerfile
  container_name: nginx-fork-recipes
  ports:
    - "port-number:80"
    - "port-number:81"

forkrecipes.nginx.template

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ${DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX};
    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/uwsgi/uwsgi_recipes.sock;
    }

    location /static {
        autoindex on;
        alias /fork_recipes/static;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
}

server {
    listen 81;
    server_name ${DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API};
    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/uwsgi/uwsgi.sock;
    }

    location /static {
        autoindex on;
        alias /forkapi/static;
    }

    location /media {
        autoindex on;
        alias /forkapi/media;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
}

Note

This setup is valid for installation without SSL This setup is only for local use on home server!

2.Run docker compose

No SSLSSL

You are all set for setup without SSL installation you just need to run the docker compose file with the following command in the root of the project.

$ docker compose up

This command will install NGINX, ForkAPI and the Fork.Recipes.

Note

This setup is working only if you have domain name for DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX and sub domain for DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API

You need to have valid certificates for your domain and subdomain.This files should be copied in the nginx/ssl folder. The files are fullchain.pem and privkey.pem (names need to be the same).
At this step you must open the docker-compose.yml file and uncomment all commented sections on lines 6, 11 and 15. Don't forget to comment the others on lines 5 and 16.
That all run the docker compose and wait the docker do his job.

$ docker compose up

3.You can access the API admin panel and the FE from the links DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX and DOMAIN_NAME_NGINX_API that was setup in the .env file

4.Create superuser as following this step docs as the registration from the UI is not available.

Final thoughts¶

There a number of different options you can do as using different domain for the BE that is not subdomain of the FE domain name. At this stage you can use the application and if you have any questions you can ask them in the repository. fork.recipes