🏨 Hotel Booking Platform

A full-stack hotel booking application built with the MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js), featuring JWT-based authentication and dynamic room reservation management.

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 JWT-Based Authentication — Secure user registration & login with encrypted passwords (bcrypt) and token-based session management
• 🏨 Dynamic Room Reservation Management — Browse, book, edit, and delete hotel/room listings in real time
• 📋 RESTful APIs — Clean API design for booking operations, user management, and hotel listing services
• ❤️ Favourites System — Save and manage favourite hotel listings
• 📅 Booking Management — View and manage all reservations from a personalized dashboard
• 🖼️ Image Upload — Upload property photos with Multer (file filtering & storage)
• ✅ Input Validation — Server-side validation using express-validator
• 👤 Role-Based Access — Separate Guest and Host user types with protected routes
• 📱 Responsive Frontend — Seamlessly integrated UI built with React.js, connected to a Node.js + Express backend

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	React.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Backend	Node.js, Express.js
Database	MongoDB, Mongoose ODM
Auth	JWT, bcrypt
Upload	Multer
Validation	express-validator

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📁 Project Structure

Hotel-Booking/
├── controllers/
│   ├── authController.js      # Login, Signup, Logout logic
│   ├── hostController.js      # CRUD operations for hotel listings
│   ├── storeController.js     # Browse homes, bookings, favourites
│   └── errors.js              # 404 error handler
├── models/
│   ├── home.js                # Hotel/Home schema (name, price, location, rating, photo)
│   ├── user.js                # User schema (name, email, password, role, favourites)
│   └── favourite.js           # Favourite schema
├── routes/
│   ├── authRouter.js          # Auth routes (login, signup, logout)
│   ├── hostRouter.js          # Host routes (add, edit, delete homes)
│   └── storeRouter.js         # Store routes (browse, book, favourite)
├── utils/
│   └── pathUtil.js            # Path utility
├── public/                    # Static assets (CSS, JS, images)
├── views/                     # EJS templates
├── app.js                     # Express server entry point
├── package.json
└── README.md

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⚙️ Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v16+)
• MongoDB Atlas account or local MongoDB instance

Steps

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/Hotel-Booking.git
cd Hotel-Booking

# 2. Install dependencies
npm install

# 3. Configure environment variables
# Create a .env file and add your MongoDB connection string:
# MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster.mongodb.net/hotel-booking

# 4. Start the development server
npm start

The server runs at http://localhost:3003

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🔗 API Endpoints

Authentication

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/login	Render login page
POST	/login	Authenticate user
GET	/signup	Render signup page
POST	/signup	Register new user
POST	/logout	End user session

Hotel Listings (Host — Protected)

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/host/add-home	Render add listing form
POST	/host/add-home	Create new listing
GET	/host/host-home-list	View all host listings
GET	/host/edit-home/:homeId	Render edit listing form
POST	/host/edit-home	Update listing
POST	/host/delete-home/:homeId	Delete listing

Store (Public / User)

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/	Homepage with all listings
GET	/homes	Browse all hotels
GET	/homes/:homeId	View hotel details
GET	/bookings	View user bookings
GET	/favourites	View favourite hotels
POST	/favourites	Add to favourites
POST	/favourites/delete/:homeId	Remove from favourites

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📸 Screenshots

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🙋‍♀️ Author

Mahitha JV

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the ISC License.