TripTailor
A platform designed to revolutionize travel planning by offering a seamless and personalized experience for users to create, share, and explore travel itineraries.
TripTailor
Overview
TripTailor is a platform designed to revolutionize travel planning by offering a seamless and personalized experience for users to create, share, and explore travel itineraries. Combining personalization, community engagement, and intuitive features, TripTailor empowers users to craft itineraries tailored to their unique interests, demographics, and budgets.
Features
- Personalized Itineraries: Create travel plans with detailed information such as destinations, events, timings, and budgets.
- Community Engagement: Like, comment, and save itineraries into user-defined boards.
- Advanced Search: Dynamic search functionality with tag-based filtering and ranking for relevant results.
- Scalable Architecture: Microservice-based design for modularity, fault tolerance, and scalability.
- Profile Customization: Tailor profiles with travel interests, languages spoken, and tags for tailored recommendations.
Technology Stack
Frontend
- React.js: Component-driven framework for building dynamic user interfaces.
- JavaScript (ES6+): Used for frontend logic and interaction handling.
- CSS: Modular and responsive styling for consistent design.
Backend
- Golang: Efficient, high-performance language for backend logic.
- Gin Framework: RESTful API creation with lightweight and fast routing.
- Docker: Containerized services for consistent environments and easy deployment.
Database
- PostgreSQL: Relational database supporting JSONB for structured and semi-structured data.
- PgAdmin: GUI for managing and monitoring the database.
Services Architecture
Microservices
- Main Service: Central service for database management and backend maintenance.
- Authentication Service: Secure user signup, login, and JWT-based authorization.
- Profile Service: Handles user profile creation and updates.
- Itinerary Service: Manages creation, storage, and retrieval of travel itineraries.
- Feed Service: Displays curated itineraries based on user-selected tags.
- Search Service: Enables advanced itinerary search with relevance-based ranking.
- Save Service: Allows users to save and manage boards with curated itineraries and posts.
TripTailor combines innovation and simplicity to create an enjoyable and efficient travel planning experience for users, making their journey from planning to execution as seamless as possible.
Team
Checkout the TripTailor GitHub Repository, and the Deepdive Article for a detailed look into the project.
In addition, a great presentation from the team is available for download!
Note: This project was developed as part of the ECE 6400 Software Development Course at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.