no-beef

This is a cattle_grid providing recipe functionality. Code for a rudimentary frontend is available at no-beef-web.

no-beef can be understood as a proof of concept of what one can implement with the tech stack described below. By replacing the recipe specific components with another domain, one can create a Fediverse platform for it.

Technology stack

no-beef is build on top of many other projects. Here is a list

Specifications

• cooklang, used as Format for the recipes

Backend

no-beef contains code related to recipes. The Fediverse interactions are managed by

• cattle_grid manages the connection to the Fediverse. cattle_grid is based on fastapi, faststream, pydantic, and sqlalchemy.
• cattle_hugs provides handling of Fediverse interactions
• muck_out instead of dealing with raw Fediverse objects, we use a normalized version.

Frontend

Used components for the frontend

• @tmlmt/cooklang-parser to parse cooklang recipes
• @helge/display-recipe display recipe
• @bovine/mucked_up_components to display Fediverse content

The display is done through a mix of preact and jinja2.

Publishing recipes

Currently publishing is done by calling the publish_recipe method with the content

{
 "actor": "http://local.test/actor/id",
 "recipe": "Crack the @eggs{3} into a #blender, then add the @plain flour{125%g},\n@milk{250%ml} and @sea salt{1%pinch}, and blitz until smooth."
}

The meaning of method is explained for example in Cattle Drive Protocol.

Recipes are then serialized as ActivityPub objects as follows

{
 "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
 "id": "http://local.test/recipes/objs/019b0991-bf02-7f38-ae61-c7b40b069ea1",
 "type": "Note",
 "attributedTo": "http://local.test/actor/id",
 "to": [
 "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
 ],
 "cc": [
 "http://local.test/actor/id/followers"
 ],
 "published": "2025年12月10日T19:35:12Z",
 "content": "Crack the @eggs{3} into a #blender, then add the @plain flour{125%g},<br>@milk{250%ml} and @sea salt{1%pinch}, and blitz until smooth.",
 "url": [
 {
 "href": "http://local.test/recipes/019b0991-bf02-7f38-ae61-c7b40b069ea1",
 "mediaType": "text/html",
 "type": "Link"
 }
 ],
 "source": {
 "content": "Crack the @eggs{3} into a #blender, then add the @plain flour{125%g},\n@milk{250%ml} and @sea salt{1%pinch}, and blitz until smooth.",
 "mediaType": "text/cooklang"
 }
}

Development

Run

docker compose up

The app will be available at http://localhost:2990/recipes/

Run pytest

Download schema

curl https://schemas.funfedi.dev/assets/activity-pub-object.schema.json \
 -o ./resources/schemas/activity-pub-object.schema.json

and run tests

uv run pytest

Run JS build hook

uv run hatch build --hooks-only -t wheel

Feature testing

docker compose up --wait
docker compose run --name runner --rm cattle-grid-app ./test_shell.sh
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