The Holberton School Airbnb Clone project

Update: Project repos have been moved to gitlab in a bid to clean up my github account.

This Repo is a collection of all the iterations of the Airbnb clone project we had to create over six months with each step having a paired programming aspect to it and some test-driven development.

As a whole, this project was designed to teach us how a web application is pieced together. Furthermore, help develop soft skill such are a collaboration through peer programming and shared Github repository as well as organization and documentation. Some other aspects are covered list below.

• Building models
• Building a console
• working with Json
• Working with MySQL via ORM (using SQLAlchemy)
• Build Flask application to service a frontent
• Build an RESTful API
• Building a frontend with HTML and CSS
• Use a template engine (JinJa)
• Use JS/Jquery to create a dynamic frontend

Version 4 is the last coding project before the deployment step.

Projects 🏗️

v1: Models, File system and Static pages

In this step of the project, we create the models and a console for the Airbnb project. While at this time we're not using any kind database we create a file system engine to read/write to a JSON file.

We also create the scaffolding of the static HTML page which we will later use as for them as templates for JinJa/Jquery frontend.

v2: Mysql, SqlAlchemy and Flask

In this step, we polish up the console and implement a database engine using SQLAlchemy + MySQL. We then create our first Flask application withing the static HTML + jinja to service the frontend.

v3: RESTful API

This step of the project we learn about implement a REST API server for the application using Flask.

v4: Dynamic Frontend ⚙️

This step we move away from server-side rendering via jinja and use the REST API created in the last step to make the frontend dynamic with JS/JQuery.

Deployment ✈️

The concluding portion of the Airbnb project, deploy the web application to servers. I took this as an opportunity to learn to use Puppet Bolt to automate the deployment process.

Change log:

• Commit 22e9279
  • updated submodules to use gitlab version

Technology Stack

Languages

• Python 🐍
• Javascript
• HTML
• CSS

Frameworks & Libs

• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• JQuery

Tool

• Docker 🐳
• Nginx
• Haproxy
• Puppet Bolt
• Ubuntu