foodplanner/conductor/tech-stack.md

Tech Stack - FoodPlanner

Core Backend

• Language: Python 3.7+
• Web Framework: FastAPI (Asynchronous, high-performance web framework)
• Data Validation: Pydantic (Used for schema definition and request/response validation)

Data Layer

• ORM: SQLAlchemy (Using 2.0+ patterns for database interactions)
• Database: Support for SQLite (local development) and PostgreSQL (production)
• Migrations: Alembic (Handles database schema evolution)

Frontend & UI

• Templating: Jinja2 (Server-side rendering for HTML templates)
• Frontend Logic: Minimal JavaScript for reactive UI updates and modal management

External Integrations

• Food Data: Open Food Facts API (For importing nutritional information)
• AI/Extraction: OpenAI API (Used for extracting food data from unstructured text)

Quality Assurance

• E2E Testing: Playwright (For browser-based integration tests)
• Unit/Integration Testing: pytest (For backend logic and API testing)