PrepMyWeek Site preperation

Before writing a single line of code, I spent hours mapping out the user experience, core features, and app responsibilities. Planning the user flow and backend routes ahead of time made building the file structure and actual logic much smoother later on.

As someone new to tech, it helped to write everything out in plain language — not in VS Code — so I could share my vision with friends and mentors outside the tech world. Their feedback shaped a lot of my early direction.

Here were the key planning insights:

✅ Design a clean, mobile-friendly UI with a clear page flow

✅ Build separate feature sets for guests, logged-in users, and admins

✅ Model complex relationships across tables for stores, recipes, ingredients, and their specific roles in each meal — which meant analyzing dozens of real recipes to get it right

Tomorrow I’ll share how I used Prisma + Express to bring this plan to life. 💡