Natours

An awesome tour booking site built on top of NodeJS.

Deployed Version

Live demo: https://natours-jksu.onrender.com

Key Features

• Authentication and Authorization
  • Signup, Login and logout
• Tour
  • Manage booking, check tours map, check user's reviews and ratings
• User profile
  • Update username, profile photo, email, and password
• Credit card payment using Stripe

How To Use

Book a tour

• Login or Signup to the site
• Search for tours that you want to book
• Book a tour
• Proceed to the payment using Stripe
• Enter the card details (Test Mode):

  - Card No. : 4242 4242 4242 4242
  - Expiry date: any
  - CVV: any
  

• Finished!

Manage your booking

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

Update your profile

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

API Usage

Before using the API, you need to set the variables in Postman depending on your environment (development or production). Simply add:

- {{URL}} with your hostname as value (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:3000 or http://www.example.com)
- {{password}} with your user password as value.

Check Natours API Documentation for more info.

API Features:

Deployment

The website is deployed using git on render.com. Below are the steps taken:

git init
git add -A
git commit -m "Commit message"
git push origin main

deploy on render > web service

Set environment variables to render:

go to dashboard > project > environment

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
• esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
• Stripe - Online payment API
• Postman - API testing
• Mailtrap & Mailgun - Email delivery platform
• Render - Cloud platform

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
$ npm run dev (for development)
$ npm run prod (for production)
$ npm run debug (for debug)