Hearth Journal

Hearth Journal is a full-stack editorial recipe website for cooks and brands who care about atmosphere as much as accuracy. The public site feels like a quiet food magazine — expressive serif headlines, an earthy moss-and-clay palette, and photography-first layouts — while a dedicated admin CMS gives you complete control over recipes, stories, homepage sections, navigation, SEO, newsletter subscribers, branding, and media.

This is not a static HTML theme. You get a production monorepo: Next.js public site, Next.js admin, NestJS API, MongoDB content model, Redis/BullMQ AI worker, TipTap rich text, and MinIO (local) / AWS S3 (production) media. Publish once and the public site revalidates on demand — no rebuild required.

About the website

• Editorial homepage with featured “Editor’s Pick” hero

• Pantry / recipe grid with category browsing

• Recipe detail pages: ingredients, method steps, kitchen notes, prep/cook time, servings

• Stories journal (blog listing + article pages) with SEO metadata

• About page, newsletter capture, sitemap & robots

• CMS-driven logo and branding in header and footer

Features

• Separate admin CMS at /admin with secure cookie auth

• Recipes, recipe categories, blogs, blog categories

• Homepage section builder, pages, navigation, site settings

• Logo upload & branding controls

• TipTap rich text editor (headings, color, lists, links, images, HTML source)

• Structured ingredients & method-step editors

• Auto-generated slugs from titles

• Media library with upload, preview, folders, and copy URL

• Newsletter subscribers list + export

• RBAC roles: SUPER_ADMIN, ADMIN, EDITOR, SUPPORT

• Audit logs and AI configuration

• AI recipe draft generation (copy + optional hero image)

• AI field enrichment with queued BullMQ jobs

• All AI output saved as drafts for editorial review

• On-demand ISR revalidation

• Docker Compose production stack

• Seed demo recipes and stories

Why you should buy

• Ship faster than building from scratch — CMS, auth, media, SEO, and AI workflows are already done

• Sell to food clients with confidence — white-label-ready culinary product with demo content and Docker deploy

• Magazine design + real ops — most recipe themes stop at the frontend; this includes admin, API, roles, media, and AI

• AI under editorial control — generated content lands as drafts, never auto-published

• Host anywhere Docker runs — NGINX, MongoDB, Redis, MinIO, API, worker, web, and admin included

Who this is for

• Food bloggers and recipe brands launching a premium journal

• Agencies delivering production-ready culinary websites

• Founders who need CMS + AI content workflows out of the box

• Teams replacing WordPress recipe sites with a modern TypeScript stack

Tech stack

• Next.js 15 (public site + admin)

• NestJS API

• MongoDB

• Redis + BullMQ

• TipTap

• MinIO / AWS S3

• OpenAI

• Docker + NGINX

• TypeScript

• pnpm monorepo

What’s included

• Public Next.js site

• Admin CMS

• NestJS API

• AI worker

• Shared packages (Zod + RBAC)

• Seed data

• Docker Compose setup

• Operator README / smoke script

• .env.example

• Full source code, commercial licence