teddygavi/lightbnb

A learning app from LHL, focusing on database design.

Light BNB

Light BnB is a property booking service akin to "AirBnB". The front end is cloned from this boiler plate code Lighthouse Labs Light BnB.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo onto your local device
2. Install dependencies using npm install
3. Navigate to /confirm all packages are installed cd...
4. You will need to create a seeds folder and seed.sql file and seed data from LHL seed data following the instructions here
5. Start the server using npm run local
6. Head to http://localhost:3000/ in your web browser

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Goals and Learning outcomes

• In this project I have studied:
  • Database Design
  • ERDs
  • Querying a database seeded with fake data
  • Add SQL queries from a webApp using node-postgres

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Features

• All functionality that I implemented can be viewed in the database.js
• This involved refactoring multiple functions to query our fake database

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Future Goals

• write HTML and SASS to:
  • add a color palette
  • add typography
  • consistent formatting for all property display cards
• add a map reference to the main page
• allow users and guests to write property reviews
• allow owners to update rates of certain properties within a given date window
• fix 404 error related to property images no loading

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Dependencies

• bcrypt
• body-parser
• cookie-session
• express
• nodemon
• pg

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