Travel Booking

Participated in an agile team of four to create an application that fetches a third party API that allows users to book and purchase flights/hotels/cars.

Checkout it out live: https://fast-retreat-22219.herokuapp.com/explore

Original repo with team: https://github.com/hatchways/team-angelfish

Authors

Built by Ray, Shay, Sebastian, Tojonirina

Preview

Tech/Framework: MERN

1. React.js/Material UI
2. Express/Node.js
3. MongoDB
4. React context API
5. Cookie-parser
6. JWT
7. Bcrypt
8. Sengrid
9. AWS
10. Stripe

Setup

Installations

1. Add API key dependencies to the project(see Adding API Key Dependencies below for instructions)
2. cd to the client directory(front-end)
3. Install dependencies via npm install
4. start app via npm start
5. Head to http://localhost:3000 on the browser
6. At root, npm install for back-end dependencies
7. run server via npm start
8. server will run at http://localhost:3001

Setup env variables:

You must create a .env file for back-end

# randomly generated
JWT_SECRET= ''

# obtained from mongoDB
MONGO_URL= ''

# obtained from SkyscannerAPI(see Adding API Key Dependencies)
RAPID_API_KEY= ''
RAPID_API_HOST= ''

# obtained from Sengrid API(see Adding API Key Dependencies)
SENDGRID_API_KEY= ''
EMAIL= ''

# obtained from AWS
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=''
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=''

# obtained from Stripe
STRIPE_SK=''
STRIPE_PK=''

You must also create a .env file in /client

# obtained from Stripe
REACT_APP_STRIPE_SK= ''
REACT_APP_STRIPE_PK

# email used in Sengrid account
REACT_APP_EMAIL= ''

Adding API Key Dependencies:

This program requires the following API keys. These can be obtained here(folow the instructions of website links)

• SkyScanner API
• Sengrid API
• AWS