TravelYaari-Api

August 31, 2024 · View on GitHub

the backend of TravelYaari Created using ExpressJs, NodeJs, and NoSql Database MongoDB (connect to MongoDB Atlas) The FrontEnd part of the project is avaialable at https://github.com/shsarv/TravelYaari-react.

To run this API, do the following: create .env with the following code (update credentials). Make sure to create .env in the root of the project,


    DATABASE="mongodb+srv://:@.wf7c8.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
    PORT=5000
    JWT_SECRET=Your_jwt_Secret_key
    BRAINTREE_MERCHANT_ID=Your_braintreemerchant_id
    BRAINTREE_PUBLIC_KEY=Your_braintree_account_public_key
    BRAINTREE_PRIVATE_KEY=Your_braintree_account_private_key

How to Create Credentials

For Database

Goto Mongodb and create an Account https://www.mongodb.com/products/platform/cloud.
Create a new Project named "TravelYaari".
Create a new Cluster (M0 Free Version for testing/development) under TravelYaari Project and click on deploy cluster.
Fill/copy the required credentials and click on create user.
click on choose a connection method.
you will get multiple option to connect to database. you can use any as you like.
if you dant want to do much, click on drivers>> select driver (Nodejs) >> copy the connection string and paste it into the .env file in front of Database = __________.

For Braintree Details

**Folow this website for detailed process.https://developer.paypal.com/braintree/docs/guides/drop-in/overview/javascript/v3/ or

create a paypal account on paypal developer sandbox >> goto App and credentials and create a new app.
copy the credentials .
goto https://sandbox.braintreegateway.com/login and create an account.
Generate new API Key and copy credentials to .env files.

For JWT_Secret

use some random Character (just for fun, not recommended in-case of Production)

Then run the following commands to start up the api.


    cd AwareWeGo-Api
    npm install
    npm start

PS- Order.js folder has sendgrid email service option which one can do using sendgrid for email npm i @sendgrid/mail and generatinf credentials.