My Mission

In my current city, Berlin as an example, it is very difficult to find accommodation, either for long-term rentals or for short-term visits to the city. At the same time, many foreigners living in this city return to their home countries for a short period of time, leaving the city with a lot of short-term vacancies. This seems to me to be a waste of resources.
I created this online service platform to connect people who want to rent out their rooms with people who are looking for accommodations in specific cities, with the goal of achieving a sharing economy.
It should be mentioned that in this project I cooperated with a partner - Alexander.

Setup

• Clone this repo

• Open the file and start:

  cd find-you-a-room

  Install all npm package and run it:

  npm install
  npm run dev

• Create .env file with the following variables:

  MONGODB_URI
  SESSION_SECRET
  CLOUDINARY_NAME
  CLOUDINARY_KEY
  CLOUDINARY_SECRET
  

NPM Packages

• Optimized bcrypt in plain JavaScript with zero dependencies - bcryptjs@2.4.3
• Cloudinary NPM for node.js integration - cloudinary@1.30.0
• MongoDB session store for Express and Connect - connect-mongo@4.6.0
• Environment configuration - dotenv@16.0.1
• Web framework for Node.js - express@4.18.1
• Simple session middleware for Express - express-session@1.17.3
• Express.js template engine plugin for Handlebars - hbs@4.2.0
• Mongoose MongoDB ODM - mongoose@6.4.3

Stack

• Frontend: Server-side rendering
• Backend: Express and Node.js
• Database: MongoDB
• Deployed on Render

Contributors

• Wen-Hsuan Liao
• Alexander Farmakis

Now you have it   ✈️   🏘️
Thank you for reading and happy coding  💚