Conferra is a full-stack event discovery and registration platform built with Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, and MongoDB.

Users can discover tech events, register for them, and organizers can create and manage events with rich details and banner images.

The project is designed with production-grade backend architecture, including secure authentication, validation, structured logging, monitoring, and automated maintenance jobs.

This project focuses not only on features but also on engineering practices used in real production systems.

• Secure JWT authentication
• Access token + refresh token strategy
• Refresh token rotation
• HttpOnly cookie based authentication

Users can:

• Browse tech events
• View detailed event pages
• Discover featured events
• Search and filter events

Each event includes:

• title
• description
• venue
• location
• start and end time
• tags
• agenda
• organizer information

Authenticated users can create events including:

• event title and description
• event banner image
• location and venue
• agenda and tags
• capacity

Event banner images are uploaded to Cloudinary.

Users can register for events with:

• capacity validation
• duplicate registration prevention
• attendee count tracking
• automatic login redirect for unauthenticated users

Each user has a profile dashboard displaying:

• events they created
• events they registered for

A scheduled background job automatically:

• deletes expired events
• removes associated registrations
• deletes event banner images from Cloudinary

This prevents stale data and unused storage.

The platform includes observability features used in production systems.

Structured logging using Pino.

Logs capture:

• event creation
• registrations
• authentication events
• system errors

Error monitoring using Sentry.

Sentry captures:

• server errors
• API failures
• client crashes
• stack traces for debugging production issues

• Next.js (App Router)
• React Server Components
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS

• Next.js Route Handlers
• MongoDB
• Mongoose ODM

• JWT
• Refresh token rotation
• HttpOnly cookies

• Cloudinary (image hosting)

• Pino logging
• Sentry monitoring

• node-cron for scheduled cleanup tasks

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/your-username/conferra.git
cd conferra

Install dependencies.

npm install

Run the development server.

npm run dev

Open:

http://localhost:3000

Create a .env.local file.

Example configuration:

MONGODB_URI=

ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=
REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=

SENTRY_DSN=
SENTRY_ENABLED=false
NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_ENABLED=false

Important architecture decisions are documented using Architecture Decision Records.

See:

docs/adr

Examples include:

• JWT authentication strategy
• refresh token storage design
• event registration data model
• Cloudinary image storage approach
• background job cleanup strategy

Documenting these decisions makes the architecture easier to understand and evolve.

Planned improvements are documented in:

docs/ROADMAP.md

This project demonstrates practices used in production systems:

• secure authentication patterns
• background job scheduling
• structured logging
• error monitoring
• API validation and sanitization
• scalable database modeling

This project is built for learning and portfolio purposes.

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