README.md

ShareBnB Backend

A RESTful API for a outdoor space sharing platform built with Express.js. Built to interact with data about users, listings, and messages, as well as authentication/authorization.

Demo: https://rbrown-sharebnb.netlify.app

Link to frontend repo: https://github.com/ross-brown/sharebnb-frontend

Tech Stack

Features

• AWS S3 image upload functionality to show photos for posted listings
• JSON Schema for server-side validation of JSON requests
• Custom Object-oriented ORM with classes to communicate with PostgreSQL database
• JSON Web Tokens for authentication

Run Locally

Go to the project directory after cloning the repo

cd sharebnb-backend

Install dependencies

npm install

Create and seed the database

$ psql -f sharebnb.sql

Start the server

npm start

Future Features

• Write tests ✅
• Delete and Edit a Listing ✅
• Available table in DB, book a listing for certain dates
  • Possibily add a calender date-picker
• Admin accounts
• More filters for searching listings
• Add TypeScipt with Express

Authors

• Ross Brown
• Chris Alley