🍽️ Meal Explorer – API Learning Project

This project is a simple web app built to help me learn and practice how to work with APIs. It uses TheMealDB – a free, open-source meal database API – to fetch and display meals based on different filters such as category, ingredient, or area.

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🎯 Purpose

The main goal of this project was to train myself in API integration, JSON parsing, and dynamic frontend rendering using JavaScript. It was a hands-on way to understand how to:

• Make HTTP requests
• Work with JSON data
• Use an external API effectively in a web project
• Display data dynamically in the UI

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🧰 Technologies Used

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Fetch API for HTTP requests
• TheMealDB API for meal data

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🔍 Features

• Search for meals by name
• Filter meals by category or area
• View full recipe details including ingredients and instructions
• Fetch a random meal suggestion

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📦 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/melau-eddy/recipe-generator-api
   cd mealdb-api-training