Airbnfarm is an app for anyone who has ever wished Airbnb only had farms. The app seeks to precisely clone the design of Airbnb's website. Its frontend is powered by React and its backend is powered by Ruby on Rails.
The app connects farm owners who have available lodging to adventurers who appreciate rural life. All app users have "guest" and "host" functionality in the same account.
Hosts can create spots, which are then available for viewing by guests, who can send requests to book. Hosts can then review and approve/decline requests.
The app's primary tables are the users and spots tables.
The availabilities table stores data on the availability of spots. When a host creates a spot, they specify its availability, which is stored in the availabilities table with an initial is_available value of true.
The bookings table stores data on booking requests. When a guest requests to book a spot, a row is created in the table with an initial status of pending.
"Guests" can view bookings they've requested on their "Trips" page. "Hosts" can view bookings to their spots on their "Reservations" page.
Hosts approve or decline a booking, which changes its status in the bookings table.
There are three primary types of pages: spots, become-a-host and bookings.
The Spots pages allow users to explore spots. The two pages under this route are the profile page, which displays details on a single spot and allows guests to request to book it, and the search page which allows guests to explore multiple spots based on city and availability.
The search page renders "mini-spots" (snapshots of spot info) in two ways: a list on the left and a map on the right.
The app has a single /become-a-host route, which renders the BecomeAHost component. This page is paginated, just like Airbnb's website, allowing hosts to create a spot step-by-step. The BecomeAHost component renders one of three components -- SpotFormBasics, spotFormDetails, and SpotFormAvailability as hosts navigate between the pages. User input is persisted until submit by being stored in the BecomeAHost component's state.
Users are required to include a photo when creating a spot. They are prompted to select a photo from their local machine, which is then uploaded to and served by Amazon Web Services.
The app's /bookings route has three sub-routes: one for guests (trips, which shows their requests) and two for hosts (listings, which shows their spots, and reservations, which shows requests to their listings).
Future developments to Airbnfarm include:
- improving error handling
- creating profile pages for hosts and guests
- allowing guests to review spots/hosts and hosts to review guests
- allowing hosts to post additional details about spots, including more than one photo
- allowing guests to search spots based on additional criteria