wanderlust

🌏 Wanderlust

Wanderlust is a full-stack MARN stack application designed to provide a platform similar to Airbnb, where users can search for accommodations, make bookings, and leave reviews. With a sleek and intuitive interface, Wanderlust aims to make finding and booking your next adventure easy and enjoyable.

• 📑 Features
• 🔧 Technologies
• ⚙️ Installation
• 🚀 Usage
• 📸 Screenshots
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📜 License
• 📞 Contact

📑 Features

• User authentication and authorization
• View detailed listings with photos, descriptions, and reviews
• Make bookings and manage reservations
• Post and view reviews of accommodations
• Responsive design for seamless experience on all devices

🔧 Technologies

Front-end

• HTML: displayed in a web browser.
• CSS: describing the presentation.
• Bootstrap: A front-end framework.
• JavaScript: frontend and backend development.
• EJS: HTML markup with plain JavaScript.

Back-end

• Node.js: server-side scripting.
• Express.js: framework for Node.js
• MongoDB: Database
• Passport: authenticate requests.
• MVC Freamwork: used to structure the backend.

Hosting

• Cloudinary: entire image management pipeline.
• Multer: primarily used for uploading files.
• Atlas: MongoDB Atlas is a fully-managed cloud database.
• Render: Deploy Our Project

⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wanderlust.git
   cd wanderlust
   

2. Install dependencies

   npm install
   cd client
   npm install
   cd ..
   

3. Set up environment variables Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

   CLOUD_NAME=cloude_name
   CLOUD_API_KEY=cloud_api_key
   CLOUD_API_SECRET=cloud_api_secret
   ATLASDB_URL=atlas_db
   SECRET=secret
   

4. Run the application

   npm run dev
   

🚀 Usage

1. Register and log in to access all features.
2. Creating Listings by entering a Various Fields.
3. View accommodation details including photos, descriptions, and reviews.
4. Updating Listing Anything that you want to updates
5. Leave a review after your stay.

📸 Screenshots

Homepage

Log In

Sign Up

Listing

Review

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and create a pull request with your changes. Ensure your code follows the project's coding standards and include relevant tests.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch

   git checkout -b feature/YourFeature
   

3. Commit your changes

   git commit -m 'Add YourFeature'
   

4. Push to the branch

   git push origin feature/YourFeature
   

5. Open a pull request

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

📞 Contact

For any questions or suggestions, please reach out to:

• Name: Balram
• Email: [email protected]
• GitHub: BalramApply

Happy wandering with Wanderlust!