Natours

An awesome tour booking site built on top of NodeJS.

Demo • Key Features • Demonstration • How To Use • Build With • Installation • Known Bugs • Future Updates • Acknowledgement

Deployed Version

Live demo (Feel free to visit) 👉 : https://natours-website-app.herokuapp.com/

Current Frontend build with NextJs demo (Feel free to visit) 👉 : https://natours-next-js.vercel.app/

Key Features

1. Authentication and Authorization
   • Login and logout
2. Tour
   • Manage booking
   • check tours map
   • check user's reviews
   • check user's rating
3. User profile
   • Update username
   • Update user profile photo
   • Update email and password
4. Online Payment
   • Book tours by paying online through Stripe

Demonstration

Home Page :

Tour Details :

Payment Process :

Booked Tours :

User Profile :

Admin Profile :

How To Use

Book a tour

• Login to the site
• Search for tours that you want to book
• Book a tour
• Proceed to the payment checkout page
• Enter the card details (Test Mood):

  - Card No. : 4242 4242 4242 4242
  - Expiry date: 02 / 22
  - CVV: 222
  - Select USA For Country and Enter any address random xyz address
  

• Finished!

Manage your booking

• Check the tour you have booked in "Manage Booking" page in your user settings.
• You'll be automatically redirected to Manage Booking page after you have completed the booking.

Update your profile

• You can update your own username, profile photo, email and password.

Build With

• NodeJS - JS runtime environment
• Express - The web framework used
• Mongoose - Object Data Modelling (ODM) library
• MongoDB Atlas - Cloud database service
• Pug - High performance template engine
• JSON Web Token - Security token
• ParcelJS - Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler
• Stripe - Online payment API
• Postman - API testing
• Mailtrap & Sendgrid - Email delivery platform
• Heroku - Cloud platform
• Husky - Husky improves commits
• Eslint - Help us to Find and fix problems in your JavaScript
• Prettier - Code formatter

Installation

You can fork the app or you can git-clone the app into your local machine. Once done that, please install all the dependencies by running

$ npm i
set your env variables
$ npm run watch:js
$ npm run build:js
$ npm run start:dev (for development)
$ npm run start:prod (for production)
$ npm run debug (for debug)

Future Updates

1. Frontend

   1. Build the frontend in NextJs framework.
   2. Create whole frontend application in react functional component with typescript only.
   3. Improve overall UX/UI and make it responsive
   4. Show the most popular and viewed tour among travellers.
   5. Allow user to add a review directly at the website after they have taken a tour

2. Backend

   1. confirm user email, login with refresh token, 2FA
   2. Prevent duplicate bookings after user has booked that exact tour, implement favorite tours
   3. Try to migrate the backend from javascript to typescript
   4. Add cloudFront so that we can upload image there.

3. Scalable & Deployment

   1. Create CI/CD pipeline
   2. Create a Docker Image
   3. Deploy the backend on vercel.

• Many More ! There's always room for improvement!

Known Bugs

Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you run into any issues or have questions, ideas or concerns. Please enjoy and feel free to share your opinion, constructive criticism, or comments about my work. Thank you! 🙂

Acknowledgement

• This project is part of the online course I've taken at Udemy. Thanks to Jonas Schmedtmann for creating this awesome course! Link to the course: Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More: The Complete Bootcamp 2019