Tjapp

Tjapp is a social recipe app that helps you keep track of your favourite recipes. The idea came from a very personal need — the question of "what do we eat tonight?" arises every day, and the good answers tend to get forgotten. The app is built around keeping track of your recipes: the ones you've made before and loved, often adaptations of something you found online.

The app is built for adding ingredients and step-by-step instructions, with a UI designed specifically for that workflow rather than trying to be a generic note-taking tool. The social layer allows you to share recipes with friends and family, and discover what they are cooking too.

Built with React Native, Node.js and PostgreSQL, the app is currently in active development. Working on it has been a great way to keep my React Native skills sharp while building something I actually use every day.

Tjapp gave me the chance to deepen my Node.js and Express knowledge, adopt the SWC TypeScript build tool, and write proper tests for a Node.js API. Continuing my React Native journey with Expo in a project I care about personally made the learning much more effective — there is nothing like a real use case to drive you to solve problems properly.