fix: Random Recipes not choosing from all recipes #4435
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−29
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What type of PR is this?
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What this PR does / why we need it:
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Our way of choosing a random recipe in the frontend assumes all recipes are loaded, but since we're paginating they're not.
This PR makes an extra API call to choose a random recipe using the backend, consequently choosing a recipe from the entire db (rather than one or two pages).
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
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Fixes #4250
Testing
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Manually hit random a few times and confirmed I'm seeing more than just the first two pages of recipes. I can also see the API call. I also tested to make sure other filters are preserved (e.g. if you have a category filter, then clicking random preserves the filter in its recipe pool).