Natours

This is a full-stack project for a fictional tour booking company called Natours.

Getting Started

To get started with the project, clone the repository to your local machine and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/glitch-io/Tour-Booking-Site.git

cd natours

npm install

To start the server, run:

npm start or npm run start:dev for development mode or npm run start:prod for production mode

this will start the server on http://localhost:3000

The server will listen on port 3000 by default. You can also access the API at http://localhost:3000/api/v1.

You can test with some test user-emails stored on the database like: "sophie10@example.com", "loulou@example.com" with a password of "test1234", or you can create a new user.

Features and Functionality

The Natours project includes the following features:

• CRUD operations for tours, reviews, users, and bookings through a handler factory class that supports advanced fetures like: filtering, sorting, pagination, and field limiting
• Using aggregate functions to calculate tour statistics
• Geospatial querying for finding tours within a certain radius of a given location
• User authentication and authorization using JWT tokens
• Password encryption using the bcrypt library
• Password reset functionality using JWT tokens
• Handling of user roles and permissions
• Handling forgetting and resetting user passwords
• Specifying 2 special routes for updating either the current user's data or password
• Sending real emails for new signUps and resetting passwords to users using the SendinBlue API and the Mailtrap service
• Ability to get all reviews and create new reviews for a specific tour (nested routes)
• Ability to make new bookings through Stripe checkout sessions
• Using Stripe webhooks to handle asynchronous payment events to update booking statuses and protect against fraud
• Sophisticated handling of errors and exceptions using global error middleware and error controller in both development and production environments
• Catching errors in asynchronous functions using the catchAsync utility function
• Handling all unhandled rejections and uncaught exceptions
• Image upload and processing using the Cloudinary API, Multer and sharp packages
• Implementing advanced security measures like rate limiting and data sanitization to prevent security vulnerabilities
• Integration with the Mapbox API for displaying tour locations on a map
• Use of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture pattern to organize the project's code
• Use of the Pug template engine to render HTML templates on the server
• Use of the Parcel bundler to bundle the project's JavaScript files
• Use of the ESLint linter to maintain a consistent code style
• Use of the Prettier code formatter to maintain a consistent code style
• Deployment of the project to Cyclic hosting platform
• Enable CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) to allow requests from other domains

Technologies Used

• Node.js: a server-side JavaScript runtime environment for building scalable and efficient network applications
• Express: a popular Node.js web application framework for building APIs and web applications
• MongoDB: a popular NoSQL database for storing and querying large volumes of unstructured data
• Mongoose: an Object Data Modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node.js that provides a more intuitive way to interact with MongoDB
• JWT: a widely-used standard for representing and transmitting secure authentication and authorization information
• Stripe: a payment processing platform for securely processing credit and debit card payments
• Mailtrap: an email testing service that helps developers test email notifications without sending them to real users
• Mapbox: a popular location data platform for building location-based applications and services
• Pug: a template engine for Node.js that makes it easy to create HTML templates with JavaScript
• SendInBlue: a transactional email service for sending emails to real users
• CSS: a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML
• Multer: a Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data, which is primarily used for uploading files
• Sharp: a Node.js image processing library for resizing and optimizing images
• cloudinary: a cloud service that offers a solution to a web application's entire image management pipeline
• Prettier: an opinionated code formatter that helps maintain consistent code style across the entire project
• ESLint: a popular JavaScript linter for identifying and reporting on patterns found in JavaScript code
• parcel: a web application bundler for JavaScript and CSS