Local Butchers´ Menu

So as most of you during the Pandemic, studying or working from home, I and especially my neighbors struggled with eating a healthy meal every day, since they were used to the canteen at work and hadn't had the time to cook each day.

Local Butchers´ Menu

So as most of you during the Pandemic, studying or working from home, I and especially my neighbors struggled with eating a healthy meal every day, since they were used to the canteen at work and hadn't had the time to cook each day.



About two months in, a friend told me that the local butchers have a daily menu, so I tried it and it was great. But there was a problem, some meals for example had intestines in them, which many people dislike, but there are four butchers in the region, what if there was a place, which had an overview of all of their menus?
What if...


Note: The About Menu had to be reworked, it was only a proof-of-concept.


The Idea: Scrape each website every Saturday evening for next week's menu, this is more or less Mcgyvert with Airtable and Google Sheets, and show the results in a responsive app/webapp.

Note: I didn't want to use a single cent to realize this Idea

The Backend, just tables with information:


I developed the front end in React-native, via the Expo platform:

This being my first app project, I was quite surprised how fast and easy the development with expo is since you can see every change within 5 seconds.

Conclusion:

Now, about five months later I would have done a whole lot different, the scraping was a contender for the definition of Spaghetticode, and since I didn't really know Git back then, especially gitignore,the API keys are still all over the app, that's the reason why the code is not public on Github yet. But if someone wants it, just hmu.

Why it's not in the App/Playstore right now you may ask?
Well, at first only one butcher had their menu as a pdf, when I was done 3/4 used a pdf and since scraping a pdf is a whole lot more difficult, than a simple webpage, I more or less had to abandon the project.