Book-A-Beach-House

Developed a web application for travelers to book beach houses and house owners to post beach houses. In order to understand performance and scalability, developed the website using three different tech stack

React + Node + MySQL

• It was a simple single page application.
• The front-end had various parent and child components which reduced the redundancy.
• Rest-API call was made from front-end react server to back-end node server.
• The user sessions were maintained using express-sessions.
• The node server was connected to the MySQL database.

React + Redux +Node + Passport + Kafka + MongoDB

• The new development in the project was adding Redux state management middle-ware solving the state transfer problem between parent and child components.
• The other important development was to add passport authentication mechanism using JSON Web Token (JWT) strategy thus making application secure and decentralized at the same time.
• Leveraged Kafka to manage the communication between client and server. This required the application to be divided into services which had unique topics assigned to them.
• Lastly, replaced the MySQL database with MongoDB to enhance scalability. Deployed this application on Amazon cloud using 2 EC2 instances.

React + Redux + Node + Passport + GraphQL +MongoDB

• The new development in this tech stack was removing Kafka and using GrapQL instead of Restful API's.
• The major learning was expedited product iteration on the front end. Also, learned to eliminate under-fetching and over-fetching across different application API calls.