Project Room Rover - Backend 🚀

Overview

Room Rover is an advanced hotel booking application created by me, that leverages cutting-edge AI technology to provide personalized hotel recommendations and an intuitive booking experience. This repository contains the backend code for Room Rover, showcasing a robust architecture and modern development practices.

Live Demo

2024-06-14.19-33-33.mp4

Key Features

• AI-powered hotel recommendations
• Real-time chatbot assistance using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Secure user authentication and authorization
• Efficient hotel search and booking system
• Continuous deployment pipeline for rapid and reliable updates

RAG-powered Chatbot

Roomie the chatbot utilizes the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture to provide context-aware, accurate responses to user queries.

Continuous Deployment Pipeline

I employed a robust continuous deployment pipeline to ensure rapid, reliable updates to production environment.

CD pipeline includes:

1. Automated versioning
2. Dependency installation and build process
3. Docker image creation and pushing to Docker Hub
4. Deployment to AWS EC2
5. Automated Git repository updates

This repository holds the backend source code of my project Room Rover

• Frontend Source Code: https://github.com/Chamikajaya/room-rover-frontend
• Backend Source Code: https://github.com/Chamikajaya/room-rover-backend

Technology Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB with Prisma ORM
• AI and Machine Learning: Vertex AI (for embeddings - text-embedding-004 and for language model - gemini pro 1.5)
• Vector Database: Pinecone
• Containerization: Docker
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Cloud Services: AWS EC2
• Version Control: Git, GitHub

Environment Variables - Backend 🔧

Here are the environment variables you need to configure before running the application:

DATABASE_URL=add_mongodb_database_url_here
NODE_ENV=development

EMAIL_PASSWORD=if_you_are_using_gmail_add_the_password_given_to_you_by_visiting_Google_Cloud_Platform
EMAIL=your_email_for_sending_emails_on_behalf_of_Room_Rover

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=

CLIENT_URL=http://localhost:3000

JWT_SECRET=

STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=

Running the Backend 🏃‍♂️

• Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Chamikajaya/room-rover-backend.git
  

• Add the .env file in the root directory with the necessary environment variables.

• Install dependencies and run the development server:

  npm install
  npm run dev