TrekTrax TravelBuddy Server

The Travel Buddy Matching Project is aimed at building a web application that facilitates users in finding travel buddies for their trips. The application provides features for user registration, trip creation, travel buddy requests, and user profiles

Users can register, create trips with details like destination, dates, budget, and activities, and send/receive travel buddy requests for their trips. Additionally, users can update their profile information

Live Project Link: Live Link

Live Deploy Server-site Link: Server Link

Github Repository Link: Back-end: https://github.com/isratjmn/traxtrekbuddy-server

Video Presentation Link: Presentation

Features

• User Registration: Allows users to sign up and create accounts, providing details about their travel preferences, interests, and past experiences.

• Profile Creation: Users can create detailed profiles, including information about their travel preferences, interests, and previous trips.

• Buddy Matching: Utilizes a matching algorithm to pair users with compatible travel buddies based on factors such as destination preferences, travel dates, and interests.

• Trip Planning: Provides tools for users to plan and organize trips together with their matched travel buddies, including itinerary sharing and collaborative trip planning features.

• Reviews and Ratings: Enables users to leave reviews and ratings for their travel buddies after completing a trip, helping to build trust and credibility within the community.

• Security and Privacy: Prioritizes the security and privacy of user data, implementing features such as password hashing, JWT authentication, and data encryption.

• Responsive Design: Ensures that the app is accessible and functional across various devices and screen sizes, offering a seamless user experience regardless of the device used.

Models

• User Model: Contains user information such as name, email, and password.

• Trip Model: Represents a trip with fields like destination, dates, budget, and activities.

• Travel Buddy Request Model: Stores travel buddy requests with trip and user references.

• UserProfile Model: Contains additional information about the user like bio and age.

Technologies Used

• Node.js: Runtime environment for executing JavaScript code.

• Express.js: Web application framework for building APIs and handling HTTP requests.

• Prisma: ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool for database management.

• PostgreSQL: Relational database management system.

• JWT: JSON Web Tokens for secure authentication and authorization.

• bcrypt: Library for hashing passwords.

• React: JavaScript library for building user interfaces, providing a declarative and component-based approach to UI development.

• TypeScript: Superset of JavaScript that adds static typing and other features to the language.

• Redux: State management library for managing application state and data flow within React applications.

• Responsive Design: Design approach aimed at ensuring optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes.

Installation and Setup

1. Clone this repository: git clone <repository_url>

2. Install dependencies: npm install

3. Set up the environment variables by creating a .env file and filling in the required variables based on the provided .env.example file.

4. Run the database migrations: npx prisma migrate dev

5. Start the server: npm run start