I Built a Complete Zomato-Style Food Delivery Platform in Flutter — Here's What I Learned

I Built a Complete Zomato-Style Food Delivery Platform in Flutter — Here's What I Learned

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Just shipped Zesto — a full food delivery ecosystem with 4 Flutter
apps and a Firebase backend. Here's what the build taught me.

What's in the project

Customer App — OTP login, restaurant discovery, cart,
Razorpay payments, live driver tracking on Google Maps
Driver App — auto job assignment, step-by-step delivery
slider, background GPS foreground service
️ Restaurant App — real-time order dashboard, menu management
️ Admin Panel — Flutter Web, multi-city management

Backend: 20+Firebase Cloud Functions (Node.js 18)

3 Things That Bit Me Hard

  1. Never trust client-side prices
    My original placeOrder Cloud Function accepted grand_total from
    the app. Anyone could send grand_total: 1 and get free food.
    Fixed by recalculating everything server-side from Firestore menu
    prices — never touching the client value.
  2. Status string consistency across 4 apps
    Flutter enums use camelCase by default (arrivedAtRestaurant).
    Firestore stored snake_case (arrived_at_restaurant). Silent
    mismatches everywhere. Lesson: standardize from day one and use
    a safe parser that never throws on unknown values.
  3. MobX reactions fire on every change — not just the first one
    My HomeScreen reaction was pushing a new delivery screen every time
    activeJob updated — including status changes while the driver was
    already on the delivery screen. Three screens deep by the time the
    order was delivered. A single boolean guard fixed it.

Tech Stack
Flutter 3.11+ · Dart · Firebase · Razorpay
Google Maps · MobX · Node.js 18 · GeoFlutterFire

The source code is available
If you're building something similar or want a real production
Flutter/Firebase codebase to learn from:
https://morningstar47jb.gumroad.com/l/tnevss
Demo video: https://youtube.com/shorts/rL2M5O5Tk50
Happy to answer any architecture questions in the comments.

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Flutter and Firebase developer from Banda, India. I spend my time building real, production-grade mobile platforms — not tutorial projects. Under Gfood Delivery Private Limited, I've shipped a complete food delivery ecosystem (Customer, Restaurant, Driver, Admin Panel) live on the Google Play Store. I also build and sell commercial Flutter source code — complete, ready-to-launch app templates for entrepreneurs and agencies worldwide. Currently building Zesto — an enterprise-grade multi-cit...
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