I made something similar a couple years ago: https://github.com/gthole/drink-stash
What is CocktailLove written in? I couldn't seem to dig up the source anywhere.
Right now related are just manual actually. I planned on creating some type of graph and computing some type of distance but not yet. Let me know if you have ideas :)
It's written in Python (Django) with Postgres and just vanilla JS on the frontend. Looks like yours too?
I used Drink & Tell (and its sequel Drunk & Told) for the primary source of recipes, which I can't recommend more.
The "related recipes" thing is interesting. If I stick to doing it with a sql query, then I think an algorithm to pick out the base spirit, then filter on that and on whether it's shaken/stirred/scaffa, then sort by common ingredient count? Then again, an Elastic Search stack can do related objects out of the box, but I wouldn't want it to get that complex :)
Your repo is nice and clean, definitely learning from that, and your model design.
Any reason you haven't deployed as a web app?
Oh and for related.. an issue is that sometimes related recipes are really quite different (e.g. an old fashioned riff with Gin and St Germain, or tequila/mezcal) so would be tough to automate..
None of the D&T recipes are fixtures, since they're technically copyright material. I set up classic cocktails as fixtures for people who want to spin up their own or play around with the repo.
Did you try standing it up locally?
Yeah the related cocktails thing is definitely an interesting problem.