SportNest is a booking platform where people can search, filter, and book sports facilities like turfs, courts, and pools by date and time slot — think Playo or BookMyTurf, but built from scratch by me, end to end. Facility owners can also list and manage their own venues, so it’s really two products in one: a booking site and a mini dashboard for owners.

The part I’m most proud of is the auth. I didn’t just wire up JWT and call it done — I stored the token in an HttpOnly cookie instead of local storage, because I wanted logged-in users to stay logged in even after a hard page reload, without ever getting bounced back to the login page. Getting that to work cleanly with Express middleware, and coordinating it with Google OAuth through Better Auth, took a few rounds of trial and error before it actually felt solid.

On the database side, I designed the MongoDB schema myself — separate Facility, Booking, and User collections linked with referenced ObjectIds, so booking history stays fast to query instead of turning into a mess as data grows. Search and filtering run on MongoDB’s $regex and $in operators.

Built with Next.js, React, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion.

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