DishSearch

A simple Django webapp to search for dishes from different restaurants. There is no fancy REST API or anything, it uses good old Django templating for the frontend and plain Sqlite3 for the database.

Demo

View a video here.

Tech Stack

• Backend
  • Django
  • Sqlite3
• Frontend
  • Bootstrap 5

Design

The project is quite basic in its implementation. The restaurant app contains a sole model Restaurant which is populated from the provided restaurants_small.csv file via the custom management command loadres.

The dish app contains the Dish model with a custom (mostly convienience) manager DishManager.

This manager implements the search method to perform a native Sqlite3 full-text search on the name field of the dishes. It also ranks the results based on the aggregated rating of the restaurant the dish belongs to.

The frontend is in plain old HTML5 with Bootstrap 5 for styling. You can search for dishes from any page via the navbar and specifically from the home page. Pagination is implemented farily simply via the generic ListView class' built-in paginate_by attribute and with some custom clever template logic for eliding.

Installation

Fairly straightforward process.

Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/mentix02/dishsearch.git && cd dishsearch
$ virtualenv env && source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Populate Database (optional)

If you wish to use the provided sqlite3 database, you can skip the next step. Or if you wish to populate the database fresh with the provided restaurants_small.csv file, you can run the custom management command loadres.

Note - this might take some time.

$ rm db.sqlite3 # remove old database
$ python manage.py migrate # create new database
$ python manage.py loadres restaurants_small.csv # populate database

Serve

$ python manage.py runserver

Visit http://localhost:8000 to view the app.