online-room-booking

A project I worked on to create a web app that acts similarly to Airbnb.

Things to Note

Currently, the project cannot be run unless the following are made:

1. An RDS_ENDPOINT is set to an existing relational database (I originally used a MySQL RDS managed by Amazon RDS, which I have already shut down).
2. A Google Cloud Storage bucket (for image storage)
3. A Google Compute Engine Virtual Machine Instance (to install and use Elasticsearch).
4. A GeoCoding API Key (Which you can also get from the Google Cloud Platform)

How to Install and Run the Project

1. Create an RDS Instance (If you use AWS RDS, then you may need to create a security group as well)
2. Input the relevant information into the 'src/main/resources/applications.properties' file.
3. Use Maven to clean and install the project.
4. Create a Google App Engine Instance and deploy the "roombooking-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar" file to it.
5. Update the utils.js domain to match what is provided by the GAE when deployed. Then you can launch the frontend through GitHub.

How to Use the Project

This project is essentially a basic imitation of the functionalities of an online room booking service website but has no commercial value whatsoever.