Aviato is an online trading platform & marketplace for airline tickets, indented to act as a Google Flights + StubHub hybrid. As a frequent flyer myself, I understand the chaos of flight prices. For example, a roundtrip December 2022 flight from New York (JFK) to San Francisco (SFO) has increased over $250 in the past month, and ultimately acts to discourage travel for many budgeting/impulse vacationers.
With the intent to ease the financial burden of airline travel and increase sporadic exploration, Aviato facilitates the exchange of airline flights between users -- intending to use travel reservations as investment/currency. This can also be used to ease the drama of last-minute plan mixups, as flyers who wish to get rid of upcoming non-refundable tickets have a place to "cut their losses" and make back a portion of their initial purchase. Aviato will be built with the hopes of connecting all major US-based airlines (United, American, Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian Airlines, Alaskan Airlines, and Southwest). In the future, Aviato will look beyond the scope of our course project and construct an OAuth backend to integrate with airline and bank accounts.
The application currently supports a MVP-build of Aviato - not yet with full trading functionality. Here, users are able to login (with non-implemented backend functionality to create an account), view their profile, add flights to their profile, and browse flights on the marketplace. App adminstrators are able to view user purchase histories and transaction information.
Note: any AppSmith errors during the video or other user testing might result from the need to generate a new nGrok token
- Install Docker Desktop
- Clone this repository.
- Create a file named
db_root_password.txtin thesecrets/folder and put inside of it the root password for MySQL. - Create a file named
db_password.txtin thesecrets/folder and put inside of it the password you want to use for thewebappuser. - In a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the folder with the
docker-compose.ymlfile. - Build the images with
docker compose build - Start the containers with
docker compose up. To run in detached mode, rundocker compose up -d.