🧳 Travel Planner – Full-Stack Trip Planning & Booking Platform

Travel Planner is a full-featured web application that helps users discover, plan, and book trips by scraping real-time data on destinations, flights, and hotels. It integrates secure payments and a scalable backend architecture to ensure a smooth and dynamic travel planning experience.

🚀 Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	React.js 14, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
Backend	Node.js, Express, Redis, BullMQ, Puppeteer
Database	PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM
Authentication	JWT-based auth with role-based authorization
Payments	Stripe API
Job Queues	Redis + BullMQ

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✨ Key Features

• 🔎 Scraping Engine: Fetches real-time trip, flight, and hotel data using Puppeteer
• ⏱️ Queue System: Handles scraping jobs efficiently with Redis and BullMQ
• 🔐 Secure Authentication: Implements JWT-based login and role-based access control
• 💳 Payments: Seamless and secure transactions via Stripe Integration
• 🧭 Trip Planner: Build day-wise itineraries with stay durations and destinations
• 🗃️ Structured Storage: Data is normalized and stored in PostgreSQL via Prisma
• 📱 Responsive UI: Built with TailwindCSS and React 14

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📁 Project Structure

travel-planner/
├── client/             # React frontend
│   ├── components/
│   ├── pages/
│   ├── styles/
│   └── utils/
├── server/             # Node.js backend
│   ├── controllers/
│   ├── jobs/           # BullMQ job queues
│   ├── middlewares/
│   ├── puppeteer/      # Web scraping logic
│   ├── routes/
│   └── prisma/         # Prisma schemas & migrations
├── .env
├── package.json
└── README.md

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🧪 Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/travel-planner.git
cd travel-planner

2. Install Dependencies

# Backend
cd server
npm install

# Frontend
cd ../client
npm install

3. Configure Environment

Create .env files in both client/ and server/ with required variables:

Example for server/.env:

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/travelplanner
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=your_stripe_key

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📦 Run Locally

# Start Redis server (if not running)
redis-server

# Backend
cd server
npm run dev

# Frontend
cd ../client
npm run dev

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📌 Status

🛠 Ongoing Development Planned features include:

• Group travel collaboration
• Real-time updates via WebSockets
• User-generated reviews & ratings