WanderLust: a rental platform
How did you build WanderLust?
WanderLust is a full-stack rental platform, think a small Airbnb. Users create listings with photos, browse what others have posted, and update or remove their own.
- Auth that holds up. Passport.js handles sign-up, login and sessions, and route guards make sure only a listing's owner can edit or delete it.
- A RESTful API in Express.js. Clean resource routes for listings, backed by MongoDB.
- Image uploads. Multer takes the upload and streams it to Cloudinary, so the server never stores files itself.
- Server-rendered UI. EJS templates with Bootstrap keep it responsive on phones without a frontend build step.
- Node.js
- Express.js
- MongoDB
- EJS
- Passport.js
- Cloudinary
- Multer
- Bootstrap
It's where I learned to think in resources, middleware and ownership checks, which I still lean on in every backend I build.
Answered by Rishi