Wanderlust is a full-stack web application built to simulate a real-world accommodation listing platform. It allows users to create, explore, and manage location-based listings with secure authentication, role-based authorization, user reviews, and interactive map integration.
The project focuses on backend structure, access control, and scalable CRUD design rather than UI-heavy features.
Live: https://wanderlust-68ne.onrender.com/listings
🔐 Authentication & Authorization
- User signup and login using Passport.js
- Session-based authentication
- Role-based authorization:
- Only listing owners can edit/delete listings
- Only review authors can delete their reviews
- Create, edit, view, and delete listings
- Image upload using Cloudinary
- Category-based filtering
- Responsive UI using Bootstrap
- Add reviews to listings
- Rating support
- Author-based review deletion
- Interactive maps using Mapbox
- Location-based visualization of listings
- Graceful fallback for missing geolocation data
- MVC architecture
- Centralized error handling using custom ExpressError
- Async error wrapper (wrapAsync)
- Input validation using Joi
- Flash messages for user feedback
- Used session-based authentication with Passport.js to simplify server-side access control.
- Followed MVC architecture to keep routing, business logic, and data models cleanly separated.
- Implemented centralized error handling to avoid repetitive try-catch blocks.
- Ownership-based authorization ensures users can only modify their own data.
Frontend:
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- Bootstrap
- EJS (templating)
Backend:
- Node.js
- Express.js
- MongoDB
- Mongoose
- Passport.js
Integrations & Tools:
- Cloudinary (image hosting)
- Mapbox (maps & geocoding)
- MongoDB Atlas
- Express-session & connect-mongo
/models → Mongoose schemas
/routes → Express routes
/controllers → Business logic
/views → EJS templates
/public → Static assets
/utils → Error handling utilities- Joi-based server-side validation
- Protected routes with authentication middleware
- Ownership-based access control
✅ Implemented
- User authentication & authorization
- Listings & reviews CRUD
- Map-based listing visualization
- Image upload & storage
🔜 Planned Enhancements
- Booking & availability system
- Date-based price calculation
- Pagination & performance optimizations
- Soft delete for listings
- REST API versioning
git clone https://github.com/snehaprajapati25/Wanderlust.git
cd wanderlust
npm install
npm start
