Jelly Belly Wiki

Overview

Jelly Belly Wiki is a data pipeline, not a website. A Python scraper pulls flavor, recipe, fact and milestone data from the official Jelly Belly site; the cleaned JSON seeds a MySQL database through Entity Framework Core migrations; a C# / ASP.NET Core API serves it over ten documented endpoints with filtering, search and pagination; and a React front end consumes that same public API — the identical one any other developer can call. Three languages, three deployment targets, one developer, and every stage still running today.

Scope

1 · Collection — Python

Selenium and BeautifulSoup scrape flavors, recipes, facts and milestones from the official Jelly Belly site, then normalise the result to clean JSON ready to seed.

2 · Data model — MySQL

Five related resources modelled in Entity Framework Core and seeded through migrations, so the schema rebuilds from scratch rather than being hand-loaded.

3 · API — C# / ASP.NET Core

Ten read endpoints serving 317 records, with filtering, search and paginated responses built on LINQ queries.

4 · Documentation — Swagger

A live, interactive Swagger UI plus in-app documentation, so another developer can try an endpoint before writing a line of code.

5 · Front end — React

The client is a consumer of its own public API: every screen is assembled from the documented endpoints, with state and actions covered by Jest tests.

Deployed, not demoed

Front end on Netlify, API on Render, database on TiDB — three separate services, all live and reachable today.