Building a Travel Booking Website with Next.js

Introduction

A travel booking website allows users to search for flights, hotels, and other travel services, and make reservations. In this tutorial, we'll provide an overview of building a basic travel booking website using Next.js. We'll cover project setup, user registration, flight and hotel searches, booking, and checkout. In a real-world travel booking website, you'd implement advanced features like payment processing, user profiles, reviews, and itinerary management.

Setting Up the Project

Ensure you have Node.js and npm installed on your system. If not, download and install them from the official website.

Create a new Next.js project using the following commands:

        npx create-next-app travel-booking-website
cd travel-booking-website
            

User Registration

Users can register and log in to book travel services. For simplicity, we'll use a mock authentication system in this example.

        <!-- pages/login.js -->
import React, { useState } from 'react';
export default function Login() {
    const [username, setUsername] = useState('');
    const [password, setPassword] = useState('');
    const [loggedIn, setLoggedIn] = useState(false);
    const handleLogin = () => {
        // Simulated login logic
        if (username === 'user' && password === 'password') {
            setLoggedIn(true);
        }
    };
    return (
        <div>
            <h2>Login</h2>
            <input
                type="text"
                placeholder="Username"
                value={username}
                onChange={(e) => setUsername(e.target.value)}
            />
            <input
                type="password"
                placeholder="Password"
                value={password}
                onChange={(e) => setPassword(e.target.value)}
            />
            <button onClick={handleLogin}>Login</button>
        </div>
    );
}
            

Flight and Hotel Searches

Users can search for flights and hotels based on their travel preferences.

        <!-- pages/search.js -->
import React, { useState } from 'react';
export default function Search() {
    const [searchQuery, setSearchQuery] = useState('');
    const [searchResults, setSearchResults] = useState([]);
    const handleSearch = () => {
        // Implement search logic (not shown here)
    };
    return (
        <div>
            <h2>Search for Flights and Hotels</h2>
            <input
                type="text"
                placeholder="Search for flights or hotels"
                value={searchQuery}
                onChange={(e) => setSearchQuery(e.target.value)}
            />
            <button onClick={handleSearch}>Search</button>
        </div>
    );
}
            

Booking and Checkout

Users can select travel services and proceed to the booking and checkout process.

        <!-- pages/checkout.js -->
import React, { useState } from 'react';
export default function Checkout() {
    const [selectedServices, setSelectedServices] = useState([]);
    const handleCheckout = () => {
        // Implement payment processing and itinerary management (not shown here)
    };
    return (
        <div>
            <h2>Checkout</h2>
            <ul>
                {selectedServices.map((service, index) => (
                    <li key={index}>{service.name} - ${service.price}</li>
                ))}
            </ul>
            <button onClick={handleCheckout}>Proceed to Checkout</button>
        </div>
    );
}
            

Advanced Features

In a real-world travel booking website, you would implement additional features like payment processing, user profiles, reviews, and itinerary management. You'd also need to integrate with external travel APIs to fetch real-time data and consider user authentication and security.

Conclusion

You've learned how to create a basic travel booking website using Next.js, including project setup, user registration, flight and hotel searches, booking, and checkout. In a real-world scenario, you would need to implement more advanced features, payment processing, user reviews, and secure user authentication. You can customize and expand this foundation based on your specific travel booking website requirements.