Trek-King

My first full-stack web application. Essentially, it is a review website for Treks in India. The core features included are login and sign-up for user authentication, Maptiler Maps API for implementing a cluster map to make it more user-friendly and intuitive , and (CRUD) functionality for creating a new trek and/or reviewing treks made by other authors. The basic foundation of this project was built from the web course 'The Web Developer Bootcamp' by Colt Steele.

Features

• Users can sign-up/login to use various features like creating, editing, and deleting treks
• Users can leave rating and reviews treks, and edit/delete their reviews
• Authors can only delete treks and reviews created by them.
• Users can use cluster map to pinpoint and view a particular trek

Demo

Landing/Home page and using cluster map to pinpoint a particular trek and view detailed data of that trek

User authentication via login page to create or comment on a trek

Creating a new trek

Editing an already created trek

Ability to add new images and delete existing uploaded images

Unable to delete a trek if the user is not the author (even if logged in)

Ability to leave a review with rating and edit it

Learnings

• First full-stack application to help me understand the integration of front-end with back-end
• Introduction to Express.js in Node.js runtime environment
• Introduction to MongoDB and the basic CRUD functionality. Basic introduction of pre and post hooks, and mongoose middleware
• Introduction to EJS to render dynamic content with HTML and javascript
• A very basic understanding of Error handling(Express error handling and handling async errors)
• Introduction to session, cookies, and flash
• Introduction to authentication and authorization using PassportJS
• Gaining exposure to Cloudinary, Maptiler maps API, and Mongo Atlas
• Optimizing app by learning about various security issues and implementing Helmet to mitigate some of those issues
• Hosting app on Render to learn about deploying and environment variables during development and production