ehotels

EHotels Web Application for CSI 2531 Final Project Built with React.js for frontend, Node.js and Express for backend, and PostgreSQL for the database.

Installation guide

Note: Make sure to have Node.js and PostgreSQL installed.

Database

Please create a database, we suggest naming it ehotel. Then execute the queries in data.sql.

Make sure that the database is running on port 5432

Frontend

1. In the command line interface, navigate to /frontend directory by running the command cd frontend.
2. Run npm i to install the required modules
3. Run npm start to activate the front-end part. To stop the application, run command Ctrl + C.

Make sure the front-end application run on http://localhost:3000

Backend

1. Navigate to /backend directory by running cd backend. If you are previously in /frontend directory, go back to the main directory by running cd ../.
2. Create an .env file in the /backend directory and include the following information

    POSTGRES_USER = "postgres" //change it to your postgresql user
    HOST = "localhost"
    DATABASE = "ehotel" // change it accordingly to your database name
    PASSWORD = "12345" // change it to your postgresql user password
    jwtSecret = "secret"

3. Run npm i to install the required dependencies. Then run npm i nodemon to install Nodemon.
4. Run nodemon index to start the backend server. To terminate the server, run Ctrl + C in the command line.

Make sure the back-end application run on http://localhost:4000