BnBliss – Full-Stack Accommodation Marketplace

A full-stack web application inspired by Airbnb, built using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and EJS.
Users can browse accommodations, create listings, leave reviews, manage accounts, and search for stays.

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🚀 Features

🏡 Accommodation Listings

• Create, edit, and delete listings
• Upload images (Multer + Cloudinary)
• View detailed listing pages
• Server-side rendered UI using EJS templates

⭐ Reviews System

• Add reviews to listings
• Edit or delete reviews
• Validation and error handling

👤 User Authentication

• User signup and login
• Session-based authentication (Passport.js)
• LocalStrategy with encrypted passwords
• Flash messages for user feedback

🔒 Authorization

• Only listing owners can modify or delete their listings
• Route protection using middleware

🔍 Search & Filtering

• Search listings by title
• Basic UI filters

📦 Robust Backend Architecture

• MVC structure (models, views, controllers)
• Custom error class (ExpressError)
• Asynchronous wrapper (wrapAsync)
• Middleware pipelines
• MongoDB session store

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🧰 Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• Passport.js
• express-session
• method-override
• connect-mongo

Frontend

• EJS
• CSS / JavaScript
• Bootstrap (optional)

Other Tools

• Multer + Cloudinary
• Flash messages
• Custom middleware
• Error handling utilities

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📂 Folder Structure

├── models
├── routes
├── views
├── public
├── utils
├── schema.js
├── app.js
└── package.json

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⚙️ Installation & Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sidharthcodes-arch/bnbliss
cd bnbliss

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Create a .env file

ATLASDB_URL=your_mongodb_url
SECRET=your_session_secret
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_KEY=your_key
CLOUDINARY_SECRET=your_secret

4. Run the app

node app.js

Server runs at:

http://localhost:8080

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📸 Screenshots

Home Page

Listing Page

Login Page

Signup Page

Create Listing Page

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🧠 What I Learned

• Designing a full-stack application using Node.js + Express
• Implementing secure authentication with Passport.js
• Modeling data and relationships using Mongoose
• Building middleware-driven backend pipelines
• Constructing server-side rendered UIs with EJS
• Handling cloud file uploads with Multer + Cloudinary
• Structuring scalable REST APIs

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🙋‍♂️ About the Developer

Built by Sidharth, a self-taught full-stack developer passionate about backend engineering, distributed systems, and scalable architecture.

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🏁 Status

Fully functional and continuously improving.