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Building an AI Cooking Helper with Node.js

Design and build a smart, AI-powered cooking API with Node.js by modeling a scalable database, creating rich retrieval and search endpoints, generating structured recipes with AI, and adding features like reviews, text-to-speech, and data export for a polished backend experience.

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DEVELOPING

API Integration, Design, & Development

INTERMEDIATE

Server-Side Programming

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Express.js

OpenAI

TypeScript

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Course 2

Building the API: Retrieval, Search, and Filter with Node.js

4 lessons

22 practices

Build essential API endpoints to make your app interactive and data‑driven. Retrieve single, random, or popular recipes, browse with pagination, and filter by ingredients. Add serialization, error handling, and a script to remove duplicates.

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Course 3

Recipe Generation & Extraction with AI and Node.js

5 lessons

25 practices

Add intelligence to your app using OpenAI’s SDK. Generate structured recipes from ingredients with prompt templates, call the API, and process outputs. Build a script to extract recipes from messy HTML and store them cleanly.

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Course 4

Final Additions to our Smart Cooking API with Node.js

3 lessons

17 practices

Add final touches to your app for better interactivity. Use gTTS for Text-to-Speech recipe playback, let users submit reviews and ratings, and list all ingredients. Build a script to export recipes to CSV.

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