README.md

HomeStay Hotline/Reviews-service

HomeStay Hotline is an open-source accomadation booking application designed with service oriented architecture. This project is especially for the review service component and the goal of this project is to build a new back end for the review service component to handle production level traffic. I inherited a legacy code base, which had a fully working front end. Initially, it could only handle 350 request per second after deployed. I started with a project scope, then reshaped database schema, benchmarked databases, performed local stress testing and cloud-based stress testing. By observing the performance during testing, I identified and solved bottlenecks. As a result, it can handle 1300 request per second when deployed, which is about 370% higher then original throughput. That means more users can interact with the application at the same time without waiting, which improved user experience.

Related Projects

• HomeStay-Hotline Photos Module
• HomeStay-Hotline Info Module
• HomeStay-Hotline Carousel Module
• HomeStay-Hotline Reservation Module

Requirements:

Node.js

Postgres SQL

Getting Started:

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/HomeStay-Hotline/reviews-service.git
$ cd reviews-service

Install dependencies

$ npm install

Run following script to buid webpack bundle.

npm run build

To start this project, you can pass in database host, database user and password as environment variable as you run server

VAR1 => database username

VAR2 => database password

VAR3 => database host

npm start

API:

GET request: Select all reviews that are associated with the given listing id Endpoint: '/api/homes/:id/reviews'