Meal Sharing Copenhagen

Meal Sharing Copenhagen is a full-stack web application for discovering and booking shared dining experiences.

While it started as a learning project, I wanted it to feel closer to a real product. Beyond building the application itself, I continued refining the design, improving the content and user experience, and restoring the live deployment after the original database was lost. This gave me hands-on experience not only with development, but also with maintaining and improving a product after launch.

Live

• Frontend: meal-sharing-front-end.onrender.com
• API: meal-sharing-egmm.onrender.com/api/meals

What you can do

• browse upcoming meals
• open a meal and see the details
• make a reservation
• leave a review
• search and sort meals

Built with

• Next.js
• React
• Node.js
• Express
• Knex
• PostgreSQL

A few things I improved

• changed the app from a very generic starter into something calmer and more believable
• replaced the basic sample meals with better portfolio content
• improved the booking pages and meal cards
• restored the app after the old free hosted database expired

Run locally

Start the API:

cd api
npm install
npm run dev

Start the frontend:

cd app-next
npm install
npm run dev

Then open:

• http://localhost:3000

Notes

The PostgreSQL seed file used for recovery is here:

• api/src/mealsharing.postgres.sql

More detailed recovery notes are here:

• api/RECOVERY.md