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Open Food Facts - Product Opener (Web Server)

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What is Product Opener?

Product Opener is the server software for Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts. It is released under the AGPL license and is being developed in Perl, HTML and JavaScript as Free and Open-Source Software.

It works together with Robotoff, Open Food Facts' AI system (in Python, which can also be installed locally) and the Open Food Facts App (which can work with your local instance after enabling dev mode), as well as Open Food Facts query and the upcoming openfoodfacts-auth. For a full architecture diagram, please read https://github.com/openfoodfacts

What is Open Food Facts?

A food product database

Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutritional facts and all the tidbits of information that are available on various product labels.

Made by everyone

Open Food Facts is a non-profit association of volunteers. 25,000+ contributors like you have added 1.7 million+ products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone and Windows Phone apps or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.

For everyone

Food data is of public interest and must be open (i.e., available to everyone). The complete database is published as open data and can be reused by anyone and for any use. Check out the cool reuses or make your own!

Visit the website for more info.

🎨 Design & User interface

• We strive to thoughtfully design every feature before we move on to implementation, so that we respect Open Food Facts' graphic charter and nascent design system, while having efficient user flows.
• Mockups on the current app and future plans to discuss
• Are you a designer? Join the design team
  
  

Weekly Meetings

• We meet online on Mondays at 17:00 Paris Time (Europe/Paris), which is CET (UTC+1) or CEST (UTC+2 during Daylight Saving Time). For easy conversion in local time, check 17:00 in Paris.
• Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nnw-qswu-hza
• Join by phone: https://tel.meet/nnw-qswu-hza?pin=2111028061202
• Add the event to your calendar by adding the Open Food Facts community calendar to your calendar.
• Weekly agenda: please add the Agenda items as early as you can.
• "Please review agenda items in advance to ensure informed discussions."
• The meeting will handle agenda items first, and if time permits, collaborative bug triage.
• We strive to timebox the core of the meeting (decision making) to 30 minutes, with an optional free discussion/live debugging afterwards.
• We take comprehensive notes in the weekly agenda of agenda item discussions and of decisions taken.
  
  

Feature Sprint

• We use feature-based sprints, tracked here
  
  

User Interface

• Mockups on the current design and future plans to discuss
  
  

Priorities

• Top issues
• P1 problems
• P1 candidates
  
  

How do I get started?

• Join us on Slack at https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/ in the channels: #api, #productopener, #dev.
• Open Food Facts API documentation:
  • Introduction to the API and links to the full reference (source)
• Developer documentation:
  • To start coding, head to the Quick start guide (docker)
  • Additional documentation
    • Server documentation
    • Developer guide (docker)
    • Developer guide (gitpod)
    • Configuration
    • How to run tests
    • Perl modules documentation (POD)

Note: Documentation follows the Diátaxis Framework.

Contribution Guidelines

If you're new to Open-Source, we recommend you to check out our Contributing Guidelines. Feel free to fork the project and send us a pull request.

• Writing tests
• Code review

Please add new features to the CHANGELOG.md file before or after merge to make testing easier

Reporting problems or asking for a feature

Have a bug or a feature request? Please search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue. You can ask directly in the discussion room if you're not sure.

Translate Open Food Facts in your language

You can help translate the Open Food Facts web version and the app at: https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/ (no technical knowledge required, takes a minute to sign up).

Helping with HTML and CSS

We have templatized Product Opener, we use Gulp and NPM, but you'll need to run the Product Opener docker to be able to see the result (see the How do I get started? section). In particular, you can help with issues on the new design.

Frontend Build Scripts

For most contributors using Docker (recommended):
You don't need to run any npm commands manually! When you run make up, a container called dynamicfront automatically handles building and watching your frontend assets (CSS, JS, and icons).

For more details on how the frontend build system works, see the Frontend Build Scripts documentation.

Who do I talk to?

Join our discussion room at https://slack.openfoodfacts.org/. Make sure to join the #productopener and #productopener-alerts channels. Stéphane, Pierre, Charles or Hangy will be around to help you get started.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. Become a sponsor

Open Food Facts Personal Search project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme.

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