YelpCamp

YelpCamp is a project that was completed as a part of Colt Steele's Web Development Bootcamp course (Udemy).

Overview

In this website, Users can create new campgrounds and comment other's campgrounds. YelpCamp is based on the popular Yelp.com, the difference being it focuses on the campgrounds that any host/owner can post for the users across the globe to check and review.

The application is hosted on heroku and can be accessed at the web address below:
https://yelpcamp-heroku-2020.herokuapp.com/

Functionalities

Everyone can view the camps and reviews without signing up or logging in.
The user will have to login to edit the campground details or any comments.
The user can only edit/delete the campgrounds and comments that they have added.
All the data will pe persistent and is stored in the awazon cloud.

Technologies Used:

HTML5 - markup language for creating web pages and web applications
CSS3 - used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language
Bootstrap - free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications quickly
DOM Manipulation - is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document
Node.js - pen-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment for executing JavaScript code server-side
Express.js - for building web applications and APIs and connecting middleware
REST - REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style for developing web services
MongoDB - open-source cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database program to store details like users info, campgrounds info and comments
PassportJS - authentication middleware for Node.js. Extremely flexible and modular, Passport can be unobtrusively dropped in to any Express-based web application
Data Associations - associating user data with the respective campgrounds and comments using reference method
Heroku - cloud platform as a service used as a web application deployment model