Nectar 💁‍♀️

(really excited about this one🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ )

Modern tour booking platform backend built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.

Nectar is a scalable backend application designed for tour and travel businesses. It provides a complete API and server-rendered experience for managing tours, bookings, users, reviews, payments, and authentication workflows.

Features

Tour Management

• Create, update and delete tours
• Advanced filtering, sorting and pagination
• Tour categories and difficulty levels
• Featured tours
• Tour statistics and analytics
• Geospatial search and distance calculations

User Management

• Secure user registration
• Login and logout system
• Role-based authorization
• User profiles and account settings
• Password reset functionality
• Account security controls

Reviews & Ratings

• Tour reviews
• Rating system
• Review moderation
• User-generated content management

Security

• JWT Authentication
• Password hashing
• Rate limiting
• Data sanitization
• XSS protection
• Secure HTTP headers
• MongoDB injection prevention

Performance

• Optimized database queries
• Pagination support
• Aggregation pipelines
• Efficient API architecture
• Production-ready structure

🛠 Technology Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

Authentication & Security

• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• bcrypt
• Helmet
• Express Rate Limit

Development Tools

• Nodemon
• ESLint
• Prettier

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/faanid/nectar.git

Install dependencies:

npm install

Create environment variables:

cp .env.example .env

Run development server:

npm run dev

Start production server:

npm start

API Capabilities

• RESTful API
• Authentication endpoints
• User management endpoints
• Tour management endpoints
• Review endpoints
• Booking endpoints
• Advanced query features

Why Nectar?

• Clean architecture
• Scalable codebase
• Secure authentication system
• Optimized MongoDB queries
• Geospatial functionality
• Production-ready backend

License

MIT License