ShareBnB

ShareBnB is an Airbnb clone created during my time at Rithm School with my partner, @ndrjao, built over the course of 4 days.
The backend was built with: Python, Flask, WTForms, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL.
The frontend was built with Javascript, React, Tailwind.
Images are stored within AWS S3 buckets.

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Getting Started

To run this app locally:

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/alicechang29/sharebnb.git

2. cd into backend/
3. Start Python Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv venv

4. Activate Venv and Pip install requirements

$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

5. Start the Flask server

flask run -p 5001

6. Open another terminal window
7. cd into frontend/
8. NPM install

npm i

9. Start npm

npm run start

My Learnings

I learned a lot during this project, such as:

• How to setup and AWS S3 bucket along with AWS IAM user accounts and permissions
• It is possible to send multi-part forms using Insomnia (we did not know this initially and created an entire form in React to test if the image upload to S3 worked)
• Using the POST listings route as a "conductor function" to handle adding listings data to the database, generating a UUID for images uploaded in order to store it in S3, and uploading the image to S3
• Form data is sent to backend as an object, and if there are images, it will be within request.files

In the Future

There are many more features that I want to add to this project, which include:

• Finishing user authentication/authorization
• Adding Tests
• Search and filtering
• User Profiles