Introduction

So it has been a while since I got introduced to web development and the community. Wrote my first line of simple code back in 2016 but only formerly started coding in 2020 when I was doing my first year in varsity. I have been contemplating this whole side project thing for making my portfolio look appealing to prospective employers. Finally found a simple project to do: A Student Accommodation Booking Portal.

Why??

I was recently trying to apply for accommodation and one of the residences didn't have a booking system. They were simply using a Google Forms to collect user information and to process everything. So I thought why not build a simple web app for them.

Then What??

In doing so, I opted for the following technologies when building this project:

Core Technologies:

• React/NextJS
• Tailwindcss
• Prisma
• TypeScript
• SQLite DB
• NextAuth

Experimental Technologies:

These are technologies that I am interested in learning/working with but currently unsure.

• tRPC
• GraphQL
• Zustand

Features

This particular platform will include the following features:

• Authentication (Google, Facebook, Email Magic Link) - Powered by NextAuth
• Role-based Auth

• Profile Creation and Editing

• Viewing of all the properties

• Application for accommodation and editing of application

• Application Status tracking

• Space Availability tracking

Progress?

So far not a lot has been done except for the following:

• project initialization with typescript
• adding tailwindcss
• adding and initializing prisma and schema
• adding nextauth
• setting up Google OAuth Credentials

Current progress can be checked out here 👉 Github Link

For now it's back to coding. Part 2 coming soon... cheers 🤘🤘