🌍 worldTravelTracker

The World Tracker App is a web application that allows users can keep track of countries they have visited visually on a world map. Users can create an account, log in, and access the main tracker app and add countries to their list.

🚀 Key Features

• User authentication - Users can register, login, and access protected profile data.
• Real-time updates - Data is regularly updated from external sources.
• Profile Data Storage - Account information stored in secure database.
• Account Security - Passwords hashed and encrypted.
• Flexible Layout: Easily expand or collapse code sections as you work.

📦 Built With

• Next.js - React framework for server-side rendering and API routes.
• Postgres - Database for user accounts and tracking data.
• Bcrypt - Password hashing function together with salting.
• Js cookies - Creating and storing user session.
• TypeScript - Catching errors and providing fixes.
• SVG Map - For rendering interactive world map components.

💡 Improvement

• Optimizations: Implement caching and performance optimizations.
• More data: Add more visual data representations like charts.

📚 What I Learned

🧠 Authentication:

• Encryption & Hashing: I found out about bcrypt and salting, safely encrypting and comparing user passwords to confirm authentication.

• Sign In and Login Scenarios: I learnt the various ways to handle errors in my server regards to authentication and how to create a smooth onboarding process and give user feedback.

🔍 Managing Cookies and Sessions:

• : Learnt about storage (local and session) and cookies. What they do and when to use them etc.

🎨 Database PostgresSQL:

• Creating one to many relationships in postgresSQL: I learnt how to create tables and joining them to other tables thereby creating relationships.