Flight Booking API

A RESTful API for a mock flight booking system built using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.

✈️ Features

• Search available flights
• Book a flight
• Cancel a booking
• User registration and authentication
• MongoDB-based storage

🧰 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• dotenv
• MongoDB Compass (for GUI access)

📦 Installation

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/ramjangatisetty/flight-booking-api.git
cd flight-booking-api

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Setup Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory:

PORT=5000
MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/flight-booking

You can change MONGODB_URI based on your local or cloud MongoDB setup.

4. Start the Server

npm start

Server will be running at http://localhost:5000

📊 MongoDB Compass Setup

Download Compass

• MongoDB Compass Download

Connect Compass to Local DB

• Connection String:

  mongodb://localhost:27017/flight-booking
  

• Open flights, users, bookings collections

🌱 Seed Sample Data

Seed Using CLI

mongoimport --db flight-booking --collection flights --file seed/flights.json --jsonArray

Make sure MongoDB is running before executing the above.

Seed Using Mongo Shell

mongo
use flight-booking
db.flights.insertMany(require('./seed/flights.json'))

🔎 Sample API Endpoints

Get All Flights

GET /api/flights

Book a Flight

POST /api/bookings
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "userId": "123456",
  "flightId": "abcdef"
}

Cancel Booking

DELETE /api/bookings/:bookingId

🚀 Future Improvements

• Add payment gateway integration
• Improve user session management with JWT refresh tokens
• Add Swagger/OpenAPI documentation

🤝 Contributions

Feel free to fork this repo and raise a pull request.

📄 License

MIT