# Deploy Mealie with Easypanel

URL: /templates/mealie

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner designed to provide a pleasant user experience for the whole family. It features a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue. With Mealie, you can quickly and easily import recipes from various websites using the built-in recipe scraper. The app ensures the safety of your data with automatic backups in any format supported by Jinja2 templates. It offers a rich and intuitive user interface that allows you to create, edit, and delete recipes with ease. The recipe editor supports markdown syntax for added convenience. Mealie also enables you to create meal plans for the week, month, or year. You can add new users, sort them into groups to share recipes and meal plans, and schedule webhooks to send notifications to 3rd party services with today's meal plan data. The open API gives you full control of the backend server with interactive documentation.

## Installation notes

Please use the following credentials to login. changeme@easypanel.io|MyPassword

## Benefits

### Self-Hosted Recipe Manager

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner, providing a pleasant user experience for the whole family. It allows you to have full control over your recipes and meal plans.

### Automatic Recipe Import

Quickly and easily import recipes from sites around the web using the built-in recipe scraper. This feature saves you time and effort, making the process of adding new recipes to your collection a breeze.

### Data Safety

Keep your data safe with automatic backups. This ensures that your recipes and meal plans are always secure and can be restored in case of any data loss.

### Meal Planning

Create meal plans for the week, month, or year. This feature helps you stay organized and plan your meals in advance, reducing the stress of last-minute meal preparation.

## Features

### Rich User Interface

Mealie offers a beautiful and intuitive user interface to create, edit, and delete recipes. The recipe editor supports markdown syntax for easy formatting.

### User Management

Add new users with sign-up links or simply create a new user in the admin panel. You can also sort users into groups to share recipes and meal plans.

### Webhooks and Open API

Schedule webhooks to send notifications to 3rd party services with today's Meal Plan data. The API Driven application gives you full control of the backend server with interactive documentation.

### Recipe Scraper

The built-in recipe scraper allows you to import recipes from various websites quickly and easily. Just provide the URL, and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data.

## Configuration

- `appServiceName` (App Service Name, required): mealie

- `appServiceImage` (App Service Image, required): hkotel/mealie:v3.16.0

## Services

- mealie: app (hkotel/mealie:v3.16.0)

## Resources

- [Documentation](https://nightly.mealie.io/)

- [Github](https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie/)

- [Template source](https://github.com/easypanel-io/templates/tree/main/templates/mealie)