🚆 TripNest

TripNest is a web application that helps users discover peaceful, train-friendly travel destinations within a given budget.
It focuses on nearby places that are realistically reachable by train and presents them in a clean, card-based UI.

✨ Features

• Search destinations by source city and budget
• Smart city name normalization (Hubli / Hubballi / Hubbli, etc.)
• Distance-based cost estimation
• Realistic train hub routing
• Filter destinations by type:
  • Hill
  • Beach
  • Wildlife
  • Heritage
  • Temple
• Responsive grid-based destination cards
• Images fetched dynamically from Wikipedia
• Saved Trips stored using localStorage
• Graceful handling of missing data & empty results

📸 Project Screenshots

Home Page

Search Results (Grid View)

Filtered Destinations

Saved Trips

No Results State

🛠 Tech Stack

• React + Vite
• React Router
• Custom CSS
• GeoDB Cities API (RapidAPI)
• Wikipedia REST API
• LocalStorage

🧠 Key Concepts Used

• Input normalization & alias handling
• API + local database fallback
• Distance calculation using Haversine formula
• Data sorting & filtering
• Clean component structure
• User-focused UI/UX design