🏨 BookNest – Hotel Booking Application

BookNest is a hotel booking application that allows users to browse, search, and compare hotels with a smooth and responsive user experience. It currently uses dummy data from MongoDB and offers live interaction features.

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✅ Current Implementation

🌐 Frontend

• Developed using React
• Features an open dashboard with:
  • A search bar to find hotels.
  • Live price updates based on:
    • Number of guests
    • Number of rooms
    • Selected dates (check-in/check-out)

🗄️ Backend

• Connected to MongoDB via Mongoose.
• Provides basic REST APIs to serve hotel data.
• Filters hotel data based on user search parameters.

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🚧 Future Plans

🌐 Frontend Enhancements

• Add a notification/message service for user alerts.
• Create a comparison component for comparing multiple hotels.
• Implement authentication system (login, signup, logout).
• Add features for:
  • Favourite hotels
  • Last viewed / recently booked hotels
• Integrate a dynamic pricing system based on filters.
• Create a coupon System .

🗄️ Backend Enhancements

• Create API for hotel comparison feature.
• Add authentication schema:
  • Secure password storage
  • JWT-based authentication
• Define favourites schema, referencing:
  • User data
  • Hotel data
• Implement a demo pricing engine to simulate real-time pricing.
• Add coupon schema fpr coupon support

  "code": "WELCOME100",
  "discountType": "percentage",     // or "flat"
  "value": 10,                      // 10% or $10 off
  "maxDiscount": 500,              // for percentage cap
  "minBookingAmount": 1000,
  "startDate": "2025-07-01",
  "endDate": "2025-08-01",
  "usageLimit": 1000,
  "usedBy": ["user123", "user456"],
  "active": true
}

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🧱 Tech Stack

• Frontend: React / Angular, Bootstrap, Material UI, RxJS, Redux
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB with Mongoose
• Version Control: Git

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Use Cases & Benefits

  - Allows users to search,  and book hotels seamlessly.
  - Live pricing updates and filters improve user decision-making.
  - Helps hotel owners reach more customers without third-party intermediaries. 
  - Improves the booking experience with features like favorites, history, and reviews.

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📂 Project Structure (Planned)

frontend/

• ├── src/
• ├── API/ # Axios/fetch wrappers for backend calls
• ├── assets/ # Static assets like images, icons, fonts
• ├── cards/ # Reusable card components for hotel listings, etc.
• ├── components/
• │ └── UI/ # Shared UI components like buttons, modals, etc.
• ├── component files/ # Main component logic files (pages, views)
• ├── helpers/ # Utility functions and helpers
• ├── store/ # State management (Redux, Context API, etc.)
• └── types/ # Type definitions (TypeScript interfaces/types)

backend/

• ├── helpers/ # Utility functions used across backend
• ├── middleware/ # Auth, error handling, logging middleware
• ├── models/ # Mongoose schemas for users, hotels, etc.
• ├── routes/ # API route handlers
• ├── index.js # Entry point of the Express server
• └── mongo.js # MongoDB connection logic