Birdseye is a tourism website. It is built using the popular MERN Stack technologies. This demo website is a full-stack website. It is built for the purpose of learning React, Node.js, MongoDB, and others tools and development packages.

This project is deployed using the firebase hosting service. To visit the demo Click here or manually visit the URL https://birdseye-travel-planner.web.app.

Note: The website may be slow because of the free hosting server.

• Responsive webpages
• Authentication and Authorization
• File hosting
• REST api
• Database management
• Sorting and search plans
• Add new plans (Admin only)
• Editing plan details (Admin only)
• Make bookings
• Booking management
• User role management

This website is a fully responsive application. Attempts have been made to implement all basic concepts/services.

This project uses a number of open-source projects/packages to work properly:

• Axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js.
• Bootstrap - Bootstrap is a powerful, feature-packed frontend toolkit.
• Firebase - Firebase is an app development platform that helps to build apps and games.
• React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• React-bootstrap - The most popular front-end framework.
• React-hook-form - Performant, flexible and extensible forms with easy-to-use validation.
• React-router - React Router is a standard library for routing in React.

• Colors - get colors in your node.js console.
• CORS - Node.js CORS middleware.
• Dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
• Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js.
• Firebase-admin - Firebase Admin Node.js SDK.
• Mongodb - MongoDB NodeJS Driver.
• Validator - A library of string validators and sanitizers.

Birdseye requires Node.js v10+ to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start.

# client
cd birdseye/client/
npm install
npm start

# server
cd birdseye/server/
npm install

For production environments...

npm start

# or
NODE_ENV=production node index.js

For local environments...

npm run start-local

# or
NODE_ENV=local node index.js

For development environments...

npm run start-dev

# or
NODE_ENV=dev nodemon index.js

Before starting, the servers must set up some environment variables on both the birdseye/client and birdseye/server.

Enter all variables in the client/.env.local file.

Enter all variables in the server/.env file.

Thank you!