🌩️ Cloud Application and Development Foundation

Course Project: Cricksy: A Smart Cricksal Booking System

Department of Software Engineering
Nepal College of Information Technology (NCIT)
Pokhara University

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team Members

Group Number: 23

Name	Roll Number	Role
Birat Aryal	221614	Fullstack
Sunil Giri	221615	Backend
Pragyan	221516	Frontend
Rupesh	221739	Frontend

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📌 Project Abstract

Cricksy is a cloud-native web application that streamlines the process of discovering, booking, and managing cricket courts (cricksals). The platform addresses the inefficiencies of manual court booking by providing a scalable, real-time, and user-friendly solution. Leveraging modern cloud technologies, Cricksy ensures high availability, scalability, and seamless collaboration among users, owners, and administrators.

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⛳ Problem Statements

• Challenge: Manual booking of cricket courts is time-consuming, error-prone, and lacks transparency for both users and owners.
• Context: In the era of cloud computing, digital transformation of sports facility management is essential for efficiency and accessibility.
• Impact: Automating and digitizing the booking process improves user experience, optimizes resource utilization, and enables data-driven management for owners and admins.

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🎯 Project Objectives

• Develop a web application for cricket court booking using cloud services.
• Implement scalable backend APIs and real-time data updates.
• Integrate secure user authentication and role-based access control.
• Enable admin dashboard functionalities for managing courts, bookings, and users.

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🗂️ System Architecture Diagram

graph TD
  A[User/Owner/Admin] -->|Web UI| B(React Frontend)
  B -->|REST API| C(Express Backend)
  C --> D[(MongoDB Database)]
  E[Docker Containers] --> B
  E --> C
  E --> D
  F[Nginx Reverse Proxy] --> B
  F --> C
  C --> G[Cloud Storage: Images]
  C --> H[Cloud Hosting: AWS EC2 or Elastic Beanstalk]

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• Frontend: React (Vite, Redux, Tailwind)
• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, JWT, Multer
• Database: MongoDB (Mongoose)
• Cloud Services: AWS EC2/S3 (or similar for hosting and storage)

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🔧 Technologies & Tools Used

☁️ Cloud Platform

• AWS EC2 (for deployment)

💻 Programming Languages

• JavaScript (Node.js, React)

🗄️ Databases

• MongoDB (Mongoose ODM)

🛠️ Frameworks & Libraries

• React, Redux Toolkit, Express.js, Mongoose, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Axios

📦 DevOps & Deployment

• Docker, GitHub Actions

📡 APIs & Integration

• RESTful APIs

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📸 Screenshots

Application Interface Overview

Home Page and Landing Interface

Signin Page

Owner Dashboard

Admin Dashboard

Booking Page

🚀 Implementation Highlights

• Core Features: Role-based dashboards, real-time booking, review system, image uploads, admin management.
• Challenges: Ensuring data consistency for bookings, secure file uploads, and role-based access control.
• Solutions: Used JWT for authentication, Multer for secure uploads, and Mongoose for schema validation.
• Key Decisions: Chose serverless image storage (S3) for scalability; used Docker for consistent deployment.

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🌌 Testing & Validation

• Integration Testing: Postman for API endpoints.
• Security Testing: JWT validation, input sanitization, and role-based access checks.

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📊 Results & Performance

• Response Time: < 200ms for most API endpoints under normal load.
• Scalability: Horizontally scalable via Docker containers and cloud hosting.
• Uptime: 99.9% (cloud-hosted, monitored)
• Cost-Efficiency: Pay-as-you-go cloud resources, minimal idle costs.

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📁 Repository Structure

project-work-group-23/
  ├── Backend/
  │   ├── config/           # Database config
  │   ├── Constants/        # User role constants
  │   ├── controller/       # All business logic (auth, booking, cricksal, admin, review, profile)
  │   ├── middleware/       # Auth, error handling
  │   ├── model/            # Mongoose schemas (User, Booking, Cricksal, Review)
  │   ├── routes/           # Express routers (auth, booking, cricksal,   admin, review, profile)
  │   ├── uploads/          # Uploaded images
  │   ├── createAdmin.js    # Script to create admin user
  │   ├── server.js         # Main server entry
  │   └── package.json      # Backend dependencies
  └── Frontend/
      ├── public/           # Static assets
      ├── src/
      │   ├── admin/        # Admin dashboard, sidebar, pages
      │   ├── client/       # User-facing pages/components
      │   ├── owner/        # Owner dashboard, pages, sidebar
      │   ├── app/          # Redux store
      │   ├── features/     # Redux slices
      │   ├── assets/       # Images, icons, etc.
      │   └── ...           # App entry, styles, etc.
      ├── index.html        # App entry point
      ├── index.css         # Global styles
      ├── App.jsx           # Main app component
      └── package.json      # Frontend dependencies

�📈 Future Enhancements

• Mobile app integration (React Native)
• AI-powered booking recommendations
• Multi-cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• SMS/email notifications for bookings
• Advanced analytics dashboard for owners/admins
• Kubernetes orchestration for large-scale deployment
• Microservices architecture migration
• Redis caching for improved performance

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• Faculty mentors at NCIT
• Colleagues and peer reviewers
• Open-source libraries and the developer community

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📚 References

• AWS Documentation
• MongoDB Docs
• React Documentation
• Express.js Guide
• Docker Docs
• Swagger API

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🧾 License

MIT License

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