droncogene/airbnb_clone

A repo that contains a clone of the Airbnb website, including the frontend and backend functionalities

Welcome to the AirBnB clone project!

Introduction

This is a clone of the Airbnb website, from the backend to the frontend.
The project consist of the following parts:

1. Bulding the console to create a data model and manage data objects. Also store and persist them to a JSON file, essentially constituting a storage engine.
2. The static frontend using HTML/CSS and a web template for the objects.
3. MySQL database to replace the file storage engine and map the data models to tables in the database by using an ORM.
4. Creating a templating web framework by building a flask based python server that serve the static frontend with objects from the database or file storage engine.
5. Creating a RESTful API using flask for manipulating objects from the frontend.
6. Making the website dynamic by using JS and load objects using the REST API.

The console

The console is written in python using the cmd module. It operates in interactive and non-interactive modes.

The console works like this in interactive mode:

$ ./console.py
(hbnb) help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  help  quit

(hbnb) 
(hbnb) 
(hbnb) quit
$

But also in non-interactive mode:

$ echo "help" | ./console.py
(hbnb)

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  help  quit
(hbnb) 
$
$ cat test_help
help
$
$ cat test_help | ./console.py
(hbnb)

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF  help  quit
(hbnb) 
$

• All tests should also pass in non-interactive mode: $ echo "python3 -m unittest discover tests" | bash

Files and Directories

• repr(models) directory will contain all classes used for the entire project. A class, called “model” in a OOP project is the representation of an object/instance and is used during object manipulation.
• repr(tests) directory will contain all unit tests of all code coverage.
• repr(console.py) file is the entry point of our command interpreter.
• repr(models/base_model.py) file is the base class of all our models. It contains common elements:
  • attributes: repr(id, created_at) and repr(updated_at)
  • methods: repr(save()) and repr(to_json())
• repr(models/engine) directory will contain all storage classes (using the same prototype). For the moment you will have only one: repr(file_storage.py.)

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Authors

• Nasir Abdulrasheed | [email protected]
• Charles S. Homsuk | [email protected]