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Establish MVC Architecture
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ToDo's:
- Back-end API:
- Restrict user to review only the tours he booked.
- Implement nested booking routes for a speicific tour or a user
- Implement participants/sold-out functionality to avoid overbooking in respect to maxgroupsize field
- Implement 2-F authentication
- Front-end:
- Implement sign-up section
- If a tour has already been taken, let the user review the tour.
- Prevent dupe bookings of a tour
- Like tour functionality to user/tour schema or a fav page
- Implement my reviews page via react
- Implement admin panel for CRUD operations via react
- Back-end API:
Link to Project → Natours-App
Installed NPM packages and utilized APIs:
| Package command | Package link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| npm i -g nodemon | https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodemon | Nodemon is a helper tool for developing Node.js based applications. |
| npm i -g win-node-env | https://www.npmjs.com/package/win-node-env | Run npm scripts on Windows (package.JSON) that set (common) environment variables. |
| npm i -g ndb | https://www.npmjs.com/package/ndb | An improved debugging experience for Node.js thru ChromeDevTools |
| npm i dotenv | https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv | Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env |
| npm i express | https://www.npmjs.com/package/express | Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js |
| npm i morgan | https://www.npmjs.com/package/morgan | HTTP request logger middleware for node terminal.js |
| npm i mongoose | https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose | Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment (MongoDB driver) |
| npm i slugify | https://www.npmjs.com/package/slugify | Slugifies the strings |
| npm i validator | https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator | A library of string validators and sanitizers |
| npm i bcryptjs | https://github.com/dcodeIO/bcrypt.js | Optimized bcrypt in JavaScript with zero dependencies |
| npm i jsonwebtoken | https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonwebtoken | An implementation of JSON Web Tokens |
| npm i nodemailer | https://nodemailer.com/about/ | Send emails from Node.js |
| npm i express-rate-limit | https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-rate-limit | Security: Basic rate-limiting middleware for Express. (Security measure for DOS or Bruteforce attacks) |
| npm i helmet | https://www.npmjs.com/package/helmet | Security: Helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. (Secure HTTP Headers) |
| npm i express-mongo-sanitize | https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-sanitize | Security: Sanitizes user-supplied data to prevent MongoDB Operator Injection. |
| npm i xss-clean | https://www.npmjs.com/package/xss-clean | Security: Node.js Connect middleware to sanitize user input coming from POST body, GET queries, and url params. |
| npm i hpp | https://www.npmjs.com/package/hpp | Security: Express middleware to protect against HTTP Parameter Pollution attacks. |
| npm i pug | https://www.npmjs.com/package/pug | Pug is a high performance template engine. |
| npm i axios OR via script referencing | https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios OR https://cdnjs.com/libraries/axios OR https://axios-http.com/docs/intro | Axios is a promise-based HTTP Client for node.js and the browser. |
| npm i cookie-parser | https://www.npmjs.com/package/cookie-parser | Parse Cookie header and populate req.cookies with an object keyed by the cookie names. |
| npm install --save-dev parcel | https://www.npmjs.com/package/parcel-bundler OR https://parceljs.org/getting-started/migration/ | Web application bundler |
| npm i core-js | https://www.npmjs.com/package/core-js | Polyfilling support for older browsers |
| npm i regenerator-runtime | https://www.npmjs.com/package/regenerator-runtime | Standalone runtime for Regenerator-compiled generator and async functions. |
| npm i mapbox-gl | https://www.npmjs.com/package/mapbox-gl OR https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/guides/install/ | Mapbox library |
| npm i multer | https://github.com/expressjs/multer#readme | Multer is a node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data, which is primarily used for uploading files. Multer will not process any form which is not multipart (multipart/form-data). |
| npm i sharp | https://www.npmjs.com/package/sharp OR https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/ | Resize, reformat images |
| npm i html-to-text | https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-text | Parses HTML and returns beautiful text |
| npm i stripe | https://www.npmjs.com/package/stripe OR https://stripe.com/docs/js | The Stripe Node library provides convenient access to the Stripe API from applications written in server-side JavaScript |
| npm i compression | https://www.npmjs.com/package/compression | Node.js compression middleware via deflate and gzip coding options |
| npm i cors | https://www.npmjs.com/package/cors | CORS is a node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options |