This is a premium, full-stack Hotel Booking and Reservation System built using the modern MERN stack. It features a fully responsive layout and smooth user experience, making it perfect for hotels, resorts, and guest houses looking to manage their booking system online. 

It comes with a clean frontend design, optimized backend code, and easy database integration, making it highly customizable for developers and business owners alike.

Demo Credentials:

User Email: [email protected]

User Password: user

Admin Email: [email protected]

Admin Password: admin

Guest & User Experience Features:

• Modern Sticky Navbar with smooth single-page scrolling.
• Auto-sliding home carousel featuring smooth transitions.
• Instant Availability Checker with dynamic date and guest filters.
• Interactive Room Selection with 8 pre-designed rich-hover room cards.
• Smart Booking Calendar with live date-validation and double-booking prevention.
• Dual Payment Gateways: Integrated Stripe Sandbox (Online) & Pay at Hotel (Offline).
• Interactive Popup Authentication with standard email/password signup and Google OAuth.
• Dynamic User Dashboard to track booking history, manage status badges, and request cancellations.
• Smart Contact Form with automatic name and email autofill for logged-in users.

Advanced Admin Dashboard Features:

• Live Analytics Counters to track total listings, check-ins, check-outs, and new messages.
• Complete Booking Moderation to update statuses, trigger check-ins/check-outs, or remove entries.
• Dedicated Refund Management Suite to review and process user cancellation requests.
• Walk-in Booking Tool to manually add offline guest reservations into the master ledger.
• Integrated Inquiry Mailbox to read, organize, and delete customer contact forms.

• Node.js (Version 18 or higher)
• NPM (Node Package Manager)
• MongoDB Account (Local or MongoDB Atlas)
• Modern Web Browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)

1. Extract the downloaded zip file into your desired directory.

2. Backend Setup:
   - Open your terminal and navigate to the 'backend' folder: cd backend
   - Install all required backend dependencies: npm install
   - Rename '.env.example' to '.env' and fill in your environment variables (MongoDB URL, Stripe keys, JWT secret, etc.).
   - Start the backend server: npm run dev

3. Frontend Setup:
   - Open a new terminal window and navigate to the 'frontend' folder: cd frontend
   - Install all frontend dependencies: npm install
   - Rename '.env.example' to '.env' and add your frontend environment variables (Backend API URL, Google Client ID, etc.).
   - Start the frontend development server: npm run dev

4. Open your browser and navigate to the local server URL provided in the frontend terminal to view the application.