🏡 Apna Adda — Your Place, Your People

A full-stack house rent/buy listing platform built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, empowering users, tenants, and admins to manage listings, documents, and accounts—designed with Indian-inspired warmth.

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🚀 Features Summary

👤 User Authentication & Profile

• Register, login, logout with session support
• Profile updates & password change (optional)
• Secure session, input sanitization, password hashing

🏠 Tenant Registration

• Upload user photo (image)
• Form validations and Aadhaar storage

🏛 Admin Authentication

• Register & login with Aadhaar verification and ownership paper upload

📄 Property Listings & Categories

• Manage listing data via MongoDB & JSON files
• Pre-load categories: authority plots, freehold, industrial, apartments
• Add listing to category JSON

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📦 Tech Stack

• Node.js + Express for server
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• express-session + connect-mongo for sessions
• Multer for file uploads
• dotenv, cors, bcrypt

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

1. Install dependencies

   npm install

2. Configure environment Create a .env file:

   PORT=3000
   MONGO_URI=your_mongo_uri
   SESSION_SECRET=your_secret_key
   

3. Run project

   node server.js

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🛣 Routes Overview

Method	Route	Description
POST	/register	Register a normal user
POST	/login	User login
GET	/session-info	Get user session info
GET	/logout	Logout user
POST	/admin/register	Admin signup with Aadhaar and ownership paper upload
POST	/admin/login-admin	Admin login
GET	/admin/logout-admin	Admin logout
GET	/admin/session-info-admin	Get admin session info
POST	/submit-details	Tenant registration with photo upload
GET	/api/listings	Fetch all listings (MongoDB)
GET	/load-data	Load data.json to MongoDB if empty
POST	/add-listing	Add a listing to JSON category file
GET	/load-authority-plots	Load authority plots into DB
GET	/load-freehold-property	Load freehold property listings into DB
GET	/load-industrial-plots	Load industrial plots into DB
GET	/load-flats-apartments	Load flats/apartments into DB
GET	/authority-plots	Fetch DB authority plots
GET	/freehold-property	Fetch DB freehold listings
GET	/industrial-plots	Fetch DB industrial plots
GET	/flats-apartments	Fetch DB flats & apartments
POST	/api/chat	Chat with Apna Adda AI assistant

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🗄 Database Schemas (Mongoose Models)

1. User

const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  Username: String,
  Email: String,
  Password: String,
}, { timestamps: true });

2. Tenant

const TenantSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  tenantName: { type: String, required: true },
  age: { type: Number, required: true },
  email: { type: String, required: true },
  phone: { type: String, required: true },
  numPeople: { type: Number, required: true },
  propertySelected: { type: String, required: true },
  listedAmount: { type: Number, required: true },
  readyToPay: { type: Number, required: true },
  leaseTime: { type: String, required: true },
  aadhaar: { type: String, required: true },
  photo: { type: String, required: true },
}, { timestamps: true });

3. Listing & Category Schema

const ListingSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  city: String,
  title: String,
  type: String,
  rent: Number,
  dateAdded: String,
  area: String,
  image: String,
});

4. Admin

const AdminSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: { type: String, required: true },
  email: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
  passwordHash: { type: String, required: true },
  aadhaar: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
  ownershipPaperFileName: { type: String, required: true },
  createdAt: { type: Date, default: Date.now }
});

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🎨 UI / Frontend Structure

/public
  /css
    style.css          # Desi inspired styling
  /js
    main.js            # jQuery + AJAX logic
  /images              # Static assets
  Homepage.html
  login.html
  register.html
  admin.html
  sucess.html

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🖼️ Screenshots Gallery A glimpse into Apna Adda’s user experience — from login to listings!

🔐 Security & Uploads

• Passwords securely hashed with bcrypt
• Sessions managed by express-session + connect-mongo
• File uploads:
  • /uploads/tenant/ → tenant photo
  • /uploads/ownership_papers/ → admin Aadhaar ownership paper
• Inputs sanitized
• Auth middleware for protecting routes

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🛠 Development Roadmap

Phase	Features
1 (MVP)	User/admin/tenant auth with upload, property listing add/view
2	Edit/delete listings, filters & search, image upload to cloud
3	Messaging system, wishlist, map integration
4	Reviews, booking calendar, analytics, mobile app support

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🎁 Bonus Ideas

• Email verification
• Social login (Google, Facebook)
• PWA support
• SEO friendly listing URLs
• Dark mode toggle

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👤 Author

Siddharth Goutam Kumar
Connect via Email / GitHub / LinkedIn

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