Ride Sharing Website

📌 Overview

This is a ride-sharing platform designed to help MUET students conveniently find and offer rides, reducing travel costs and promoting eco-friendly commuting. Users can create ride offers, search for available rides, manage their trips, and receive real-time updates.

🚀 Features

• User Authentication: Secure login and signup system.
• Offer a Ride: Drivers can create ride offers.
• Find a Ride: Passengers can search for available rides.
• Manage Rides: Users can oversee their current rides.
• Ride History: Log of all created, joined, and canceled rides.
• Notifications: Alerts for ride cancellations or when a passenger leaves.
• Real-time Updates: Live seat availability and ride notifications using WebSockets.
• Forgot Password: Users can reset passwords via email link.
• Microsoft Login: Users can Login and Sign Up using their Microsoft university email.

🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: EJS (Embedded JavaScript Templates) + Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Node.js + Express.js
• Database: MongoDB (via Mongoose)
• Authentication: JWT (JSON Web Token) + Microsoft OAuth
• File Storage: Cloudinary
• Email Service: Resend
• Real-time Updates: WebSockets

🔧 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/sunjay-dev/Ride-sharing-website
   cd Ride-sharing-website

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Set up environment variables in a .env file (see below).
4. Run the server:

   npm start

   The app will be running at http://localhost:3000

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://your_username:your_password@your_cluster.mongodb.net/database_name
CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_api_key
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_api_secret
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
PORT=3000
SENDER_EMAIL=EMAIL_ADDRESS
CLIENT_URL=http://localhost:3000
RESEND_EMAIL_API_KEY=RESEND_EMAIL_API_KEY
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID=MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET=MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET

🔑 User Authentication

• Sign Up with university email (@students.muet.edu.pk).
• Login to access ride-sharing features.
• Forgot Password? Reset using an emailed link.

🚀 What's Next?

• Develop a mobile app for iOS & Android.
• Add a feature for drivers to approve passengers before joining a ride.

🏆 Achievements

• 🎉 Hackathon: Hack for Humanity🥇
• Public Voting Winner🏅
• Ranked 20th among all participants📜

🤝 Contributors

• Varoon Kumar - UI Designer
• Sunjay Kumar - MERN Stack Developer (Backend Focused)
• Muhammad Sajid - MERN Stack Developer (Frontend Focused)

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Rabeea Jaffari for her guidance, project design, supervision, and continuous mentorship throughout this project.

🎯 Support Us

If you like our project, please support us by contributing open source! 🙌