Mandu

Mandu is a custom frontend for the Mealie recipe manager, built with Gleam and Lustre with the long-term goal of replacing the backend once the frontend is stable. It is:

• a fun side-project to learn Gleam and Lustre: code quality will need improving
• licensed under the EUPL: it's compatibility clause allows reuse of parts of this codebase into projects with compatible copyleft licenses
• not a feature-complete frontend: only a subset of Mealie's features will be implemented to keep the interface simple. New features will be experimented with.
• not an open-contribution project: issues and PRs are disabled, but feel free to send feedback and ideas by email or Fediverse.

Screenshot of the recipe search interface Screenshot of the recipe search interface Screenshot of the recipe edition interface Screenshot of the recipe edition interface

How to run

Run it locally

• make run will start a Vite dev server that proxies to https://demo.mealie.io, for easy testing
• To use your own Mealie instance, create a .env file and set the VITE_MEALIE_HOST variable

Deploy it on a server

• Run make build and copy the contents of dist/ on your server
• Then, setup your web server to proxy the /api/* subpath to your Mealie server and serve the static files. Here is an example Caddy configuration:

my.subdomain.example {
 handle /api/* {
 reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:9432 { # Optional header, to enable "Open in Mealie" links
 header_down X-Backend-Url https://external.mealie.address
 }
 }
 handle {
 root * /path/to/the/mandu/build
 route {
 try_files {path} /index.html
 header /index.html Cache-Control "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate"
 }
 file_server
 }
}