Natours - Tours Booking Website

Natours is a tours booking website built with the following technologies:

• Node.js: Runtime environment for executing JavaScript.
• Express: Web application framework for Node.js.
• MongoDB: NoSQL database for storing and retrieving data.
• Mongoose: ODM for MongoDB, providing a schema-based solution to model data.
• Pug: Template engine for rendering HTML.

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Features

Natours offers a robust set of features, including:

1. User Authentication and Authorization

• Sign up: Users can register for an account.
• Login: Registered users can log in with email and password.
• Forgot and Reset Password: Users can reset their passwords if forgotten.

2. User Profile Management

• Users can manage their profiles and view bookings.

3. Tour Booking and Management

• Users can book tours and manage bookings.
• Admins can manage tour listings, including CRUD operations.

4. Credit Card Payments with Stripe

• Secure payment integration using Stripe for tour bookings.

5. CRUD Operations

• Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on the following models:
  • Tours: For managing available tours.
  • Users: For managing user data.
  • Reviews: For users to add reviews for tours.
  • Bookings: For managing bookings made by users.

6. Advanced Data Querying

• Aggregation Pipelines: Used for complex data queries.
• Geospatial Queries: Allows querying tours based on user location.

7. API Features

• Filtering: Allows filtering data based on user preferences (e.g., tour duration, price).
• Sorting: Enables sorting tours by various attributes (e.g., price, rating).
• Limiting Fields: Limits the number of fields returned in responses.
• Pagination: Enables fetching data in chunks.

8. Error Handling

• Complex error handling mechanism for capturing and displaying errors.

9. Email Handling

• Complex email handling system for sending confirmation, notification, and password reset emails.

10. Maps Integration

• Maps are integrated to show tour locations.

11. MVC Architecture

• The application follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture for better separation of concerns.

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Technologies Used

• Node.js: Backend JavaScript runtime.
• Express: Web framework for Node.js.
• MongoDB: NoSQL database.
• Mongoose: ODM for MongoDB.
• Pug: Template engine for rendering views.

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Getting Started

To get started with the Natours project, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/farahmahfouz/Booking-App.git

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Set up environment variables

• Configure environment variables like MongoDB URI, JWT secret, etc. You can use a .env file for this purpose.

4. Run the server

npm start

The server will start, and the application will be accessible at http://localhost:3000.

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API Documentation

For detailed documentation of the available API endpoints, refer to the following:

• API Documentation: Postman API Documentation

This documentation covers:

• Authentication (login, signup, password reset)
• Tour CRUD operations
• User profile management
• Booking management
• Advanced data querying (filtering, sorting, pagination)
• Geospatial queries

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Contributors

• Farah Mahfouz (@farahmahfouz): Main contributor and developer.

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License

This project is part of Jonas Schmedtmann's course "Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More: The Complete Bootcamp 2024" on Udemy.

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