HostelVerse

HostelVerse is a Hostel Management System, which aims to digitize and automate the daily and monotonic tasks that a Hostel Warden or Caretaker does.

Build Status

Features

• Sign up for students using their college email id
• Automated Hostel Allotment Prodcedure, based on higher priority to the farthest students
• Creating Leave Applications, Room Issues that the warden can Resolve/Approve/Reject online
• Statistics for Admin, like Hostel Occcupancy Rate, Issue Clearance Rate for Wardens
• Create Feedback for the hostels and give them rating
• Location based Check In/Check Out for monitoring attendence of Students
• Paying Hostel Fees

Tech Stack for Backend

• Azure Functions - Serverless Backend Technology
• Typescript
• Azure CosmosDB API for MongoDB - A gloabally distributed database hosted on Azure
• Sentry - Application monitoring and error tracking software
• @hapi/iron - A more secure protocol for encrypting data in form of tokens
• Mongoose
• Razorpay - A simple and sophisticated payment gateway

Documentation

I have created a OpenAPI v3.0.0 complaint API and have documented the same using Swagger Docs and have hosted the docs on Heroku.

Link to documentation: https://hostelverse-docs.herokuapp.com/docs/

Installation

The project requires Node.js 16.x LTS version to run

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

cd HostelVerse-Serverless
npm i
npm start

Future Milestones

• Integrate a payment gatweay like Stripe, Razorpay for students to pay their hostel fees
• Chat with Warden: Students should be able to chat with the warden in case of any urgent matters
• Emergency Beacon: Students can use the emergency becon to send a distress seignal to the emergency services present at the campus

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!