🍳 CookMaster

CookMaster is a desktop recipe management application built with WPF and the MVVM pattern in C#.

The project focuses on clean structure, separation of concerns, and maintainable UI logic.

🚀 Features

📖 View and manage recipes

🧾 Structured ingredient handling

🔄 Data binding with real-time UI updates

🧠 Clear separation between UI and logic using MVVM

🎯 Reusable components such as converters and services

🏗️ Architecture

The project follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern.

CookMaster
├── Models - Data structures and domain models
├── Views - XAML user interface
├── ViewModels - UI logic and state handling
├── Services - Application logic and helpers
├── Infrastructure - Base classes and utilities
├── Converters - Value converters for UI binding
└── Resources - Styles, themes, and assets

Key Concepts

• Data Binding between View and ViewModel
• INotifyPropertyChanged for reactive UI updates
• Commands (ICommand) for user interactions
• Value Converters for UI transformations

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Language: C#
• Framework: WPF (.NET)
• Architecture: MVVM
• UI: XAML

⚙️ Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/LudvigSHub/CookMaster.git

cd CookMaster

2. Open in Visual Studio Open CookMaster.sln Set CookMaster as startup project

3. Run the application Press F5 Or click Run

🧠 Purpose of the Project

This project was created to practice:

• Building desktop applications with WPF
• Applying the MVVM design pattern
• Structuring a scalable and maintainable codebase
• Working with data binding and UI state management

📌 Notes

• This is an early project in my development journey
• Later projects show more advanced backend architecture and full-stack systems
• The focus here is on UI structure, MVVM, and clean separation of concerns