Rentify

House Rental Platform

Introduction · Features · Tech Stack · Running Locally · Author

Introduction

Rentify is a house rental platform. The frontend of the application is built using NextJs, Typescript, Tailwind CSS and the backend is built using Python, Django, PostgreSQL. The backend is containerized and is deployed on a VM instance in the cloud using an Nginx Server.

Features

• Register and Login to the platform
• Create a new apartment listing.
• Explore all listed apartments on the home page.
• Filter apartments based on categories, location, no. of bedrooms, bathrooms and no. of guests.
• Chat with apartment host using socket connection.
• Book your favorite apartment.
• View listed properties.
• View favorite properties.
• View your reservations.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Django
• PostgreSQL
• NextJs
• Typescript
• Tailwind CSS
• Socket IO
• Docker
• Nginx

Screenshots

Home Page

Apartment Page

Search Modal

Add Property Modal

Chat screen

My Reservations Page

My Favorites Page

Running Locally

Cloning the repository to the local machine.

git clone

Go to frontend folder

cd frontend

Installing the dependencies.

npm install

Running the application.

Then, run the application in the command line and it will be available at http://localhost:3000.

npm run dev

Go to backend

cd backend

Storing API key in .env file.

Create a file in backend root directory of project named .env.dev. And store your postgresDB keys in it, as shown in the .env.dev file.

Build the image

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml build

Run the container

Then, run the application in the command line and it will be available at http://localhost:8000.

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Author

• Anchit Sinha (@anchit1909)