www.fixiebnb.com

A Fixed-Gear Themed Airbnb Clone

Key Features

• Simluates Airbnb as a single page Backbone app consuming RESTful Rails API and custom routes.
• Consumes Google Maps API to query Rails Database for responsive real-time search filtering.
• Consumes Google Maps Geocoder API to allow users to create listings with any address known to Google Maps.
• Overrides Backbone onRender method with custom onRender method to display Google Map properly.
• User's are able to make a rental request, and the owner can approve/deny the request.
• Reduces n + 1 queries using ActiveRecord :includes

Roadmap

Phase 0: User Authentication

• Guest account for site visitors.
• Users can register, sign in, and sign out of the application.
• Support restricting access to certain pages based on whether a user is authenticated.

Phase 1: Searching

• Users should be able to type in any address and search anywhere they want.
• Google Maps should be centered at the users search request.
• Bike Listings should be displayed based on map bounds.

Phase 2: Marker on Map for respective Listing

• Marker should be responsive to hovering over the listing.
• Marker should only drop upon listing returning from Rails backend.
• Markers should be removed when they are no longer within map bounds.

Phase 3: Info Window on Marker

• Clicking on a google maps Marker should show an InfoWindow.
• Hovering over a listing should activate the respective Marker and show InfoWindow

Phase 4: Bike Listing Show

• Clicking on a listing from the Search page should bring user to the selected bikes's info page.
• Listing Show page should show multiple pictures of the listing to entice potential renter.

Phase 5: Requests

• Users should be able to request the bike from start date to end date.

Phase 6: User Dashboard

• Users should be able to see their listings.
• Users should be able to see their requests.

Phase 7: Approve/Deny

• Owners should be able to approve or deny a request.

Phase 8: Create a listing

• Users should be able to post a listing of their bike.
• Listing a bike should take the user to the search View showing the location of their bike.
• After creation of a listing, there should be a marker on the map indicating where the listing is.

Future TODOs:

• Implement pagination when users zoom out too far, huge bottleneck upon scaling.
• Allow users to filter by more search parameters such as price.
• Users should be able to create a profile of themselves instead of having an Orca whale.
• Instead of storing all the infoWindows and Markers in an array, create them on the fly.