HomeHeavens

HomeHeavens is a web application designed to manage and showcase property listings. It leverages MongoDB, Express, Node.js, and various other technologies to provide a seamless user experience for property owners and potential buyers. The application follows the MVC architecture and includes robust authentication, image storage, map features, and validation mechanisms.

UI

• home page

• register your home

• authentication and authorization- only owner can edit/ delete listing

• MongoDB database- homeheavens

Models-store All models used in project

• Model 1- Listing

1. title
2. description
3. image
4. price
5. location
6. country
7. reviews
8. owner
9. geometry

• Listing-Review => One to Many Relation, reviews refer to Review add one more key in listing for reviews, which store ObjectId of its all reviews.

• Listing-User => One to One Relation, owner refers to User

• Model 2- Review

1. comment
2. rating
3. createdAt
4. author

• Review-User => One to One Relation, author refers to User

Model-3- User

1. email
2. username
3. password we just define schema with email. username and password will be added by passport-local-mongoose

init - to initialize the database and website

• init data is stored in data.js
• run index.js to initialize/re-initialize database

Views - contain all templates

• layouts have boilerplate for common includes
• listing have all pages related to listings

Public - Static files

• all static files are stored in public folder

utils - extra files

• extra utility files like error handler ect are stored in util folder

Validations

• for client side validation, we set required in input field and applied bootstrap class 'needs-validation', the logic of 'needs-validation' is written in "public/js/script.js"
• we used "joi" tool for server side schema validation in schema.js

routes

• all routes are stored in respective route files

authentication and authorization

• passport: Passport is Express-compatible authentication middleware for Node.js.
• passport-local: Passport strategy for authenticating with a username and password.
• passport-local-mongoose: Passport-Local Mongoose is a Mongoose plugin that simplifies building username and password login with Passport.

Controller

• callback functions used for routes are defined in controller

phase-III

• implemented MVC model
• router.route used to combine routes of common path
• starability module used to style rating
• images stored on cloudinary using multer-storage-cloudinary and cloudinary
• map feature using mapbox api
• geocoding for getting coordinates of location
• coordinates are stored in database using GeoJSON