🏞️ Natours - Adventure Tour Booking Application

Natours is a feature-rich web application built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB that allows users to book exciting adventure tours. This project was developed as part of the "Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More" course by Jonas Schmedmann, showcasing a modern backend architecture and a server-side rendered frontend.

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✨ Features

• RESTful API: Complete backend API for managing tours, users, reviews, and bookings.
• Server-Side Rendering: User-facing website built with Pug templates.
• Authentication & Authorization: Secure user authentication with JWT (JSON Web Tokens) and cookie-based sessions.
• Password Management: Password reset functionality via email.
• Credit Card Payments: Full integration with the Stripe API for processing payments.
• Email Notifications: In-app email notifications for events like signup and password resets (using Mailtrap for development and SendGrid for production).
• Interactive Maps: Beautiful Mapbox integration to display tour locations.
• Advanced Security: Implements best practices such as rate limiting, data sanitization (XSS, NoSQL injection), security headers with Helmet, and parameter pollution prevention.
• User Account Management: Users can update their profile information and password.

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🚀 Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Mongoose
• Frontend: Pug (Server-Side Templating), Vanilla JavaScript, CSS
• Authentication: JSON Web Token (JWT), bcryptjs, cookie-parser
• Payments: Stripe
• Email: Nodemailer, Mailtrap, SendGrid
• Mapping: Mapbox
• Security: Helmet, express-rate-limit, express-mongo-sanitize, xss-clean, hpp
• Development Tools: ESLint, Prettier, Nodemon, Parcel (for frontend asset bundling)

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⚙️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed on your machine.
• A local or remote MongoDB database instance.
• API keys for Stripe, Mapbox, and an email service like SendGrid.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [https://github.com/J-Mihir/natours-tour.git](https://github.com/J-Mihir/natours-tour.git)

2. Navigate into the project directory:

   cd natours-tour

3. Install NPM packages:

   npm install

4. Set up Environment Variables: Rename the config.env.example file to config.env and add your own configuration values for the database, JWT secret, email credentials, and API keys.

   NODE_ENV=development
   PORT=3000
   DATABASE=your_mongodb_connection_string
   DATABASE_PASSWORD=your_mongodb_password
   JWT_SECRET=a-long-and-very-secure-secret-string
   JWT_EXPIRES_IN=90d
   # ... and so on for email, Stripe, etc.

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🏃‍♂️ Usage

For development, you need to run two processes in two separate terminals: the Node.js server and the Parcel bundler.

1. Start the Node.js server:

   npm start

2. In a new terminal, start the Parcel bundler: This will watch your frontend files and automatically rebuild the bundle.js file when you make changes.

   npm run watch:js

3. Access the application: Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.

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🙏 Acknowledgements

This project was built as part of the "Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More: The Complete Bootcamp" course by Jonas Schmedmann. A huge thank you to Jonas for the comprehensive and high-quality educational content that made this project possible.