🌙 Attacus & Psyche

A bespoke event management platform for night walks under the stars.

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🛍️ About

Attacus & Psyche is a full-stack platform to manage night walk conservation events.
Users can browse curated events, register guests, make secure payments, and admins can manage participant data effortlessly.

Built with performance and user experience in mind - both frontend and backend are modern, secure, and elegant.

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🌟 Features

• 🌌 Curated display of night walk events
• 🛒 Add to cart & register participants
• 💳 Seamless Razorpay payment integration
• 🔒 JWT-based authentication
• 🔐 Secure password hashing using bcrypt
• 🍪 Auth stored in HTTP-only cookies
• 🧾 Downloadable participant data (CSV) & order history (XLSX)
• 📤 Admin export tools for event management
• 📱 Fully responsive design via Tailwind CSS
• 📸 Cloudinary image uploads for events or profiles

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⚙️ Tech Stack

🖥 Frontend – React + Vite + Tailwind

• React 19
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS 4
• Axios
• React Router DOM
• EmailJS
• Lucide Icons

🌐 Backend – Express + MongoDB

• Express 5
• MongoDB & Mongoose
• Razorpay SDK
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• bcrypt
• Multer + Cloudinary
• Nodemailer / React Email
• json-2-csv & xlsx for export features

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🗂️ System Architecture

graph TD;
    A[Frontend: React + Vite] -->|Axios API Calls| B(Express.js Backend);
    B --> C[MongoDB];
    B --> D[Razorpay SDK];
    B --> E[Cloudinary Uploads];
    B --> F[CSV/XLSX Export];
    B --> G[JWT Auth];
    B --> H[Nodemailer / EmailJS];
    C -->|Mongoose| B;

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✅ Built with modular separation of concerns and scalable exports/auth/payment workflows.

📦 Project Structure

/frontend
  ├── src/
  │   ├── pages
  │   ├── components/
  │   ├── services/ (API)
  │   └── assets/

  /Emails
    ├── Email.html
  
 /backend
  ├── controllers/
  ├── models/
  ├── routes/
  ├── utils/
  └── index.js

📸 Live Demo

🌐 Frontend → Functioning Master deployement

🖥️ Backend → Deployed on Render.

🚧 Current Status

We’re still adding features, testing, debugging, and ensuring the platform is stable and robust. A significant amount of work remains, but around 90% of the project is complete.

✨ Contributors

mayur k setty 👑 Project Lead

📃 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

📬 Contact

For feedback, bugs, or collaborations: 📧 [email protected] 🔗 LinkedIn

Feel free to fork this repository and submit PR's as contributions. Follow the Contributions.md for PR's to get accepted.

🌏 made with ❤️ in India by Mayur.