mess menu

Weekly meals for Sector 62 and 128. Route: /mess-menu. Related: Academic calendar.

flowchart LR
  Page[mess-menu/page.tsx] --> MC[MenuContent]
  MC --> Hook[useMessMenu /api/mess-menu]
  Hook --> API[app/api/mess-menu/route.ts]
  API --> N62[N8N_URI]
  API --> N128[N8N_128_URI]
  API --> Merge[Lunch + Lunch128]

README source of truth for published JSON: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/life2harsh2/data/main/mess_menu.json (life2harsh). The route itself fetches two n8n URLs (N8N_URI, N8N_128_URI), revalidate 3600s, and merges 128 lunch into Lunch128.

menu: {
  "Monday 01.08.25": {
    Breakfast: string;
    Lunch: string;
    Lunch128?: string | null;
    Dinner: string;
  };
}

Keys are DayName dd.mm.yy. MenuContent parses that date, flags a menu whose Sunday is already past, and counts how many days stale it is.

website/components/mess-menu/menu-content.tsx

flowchart TB
  Load[TanStack Query] --> Days[day cards]
  Days --> Meals[Breakfast Lunch Dinner]
  Meals --> L128[Lunch128 when present]

Independent of UserContext. Query staleTime is 1 hour. Offline only if the SW cached that GET.