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name: aws-serverless-airline-booking
summary: "aws-serverless-airline-booking is an open-source project with 2.3k GitHub stars. It is associated with airline-booking, aws, aws-lambda, aws-lambda-node."
license: MIT
repo: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking
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# aws-serverless-airline-booking

aws-serverless-airline-booking is an open-source project with 2.3k GitHub stars. It is associated with airline-booking, aws, aws-lambda, aws-lambda-node.

## AWS Serverless Airline Booking

Serverless Airline Booking is a complete web application that provides Flight Search, Payment, Booking and Loyalty points including end-to-end testing, GraphQL and CI/CD. This web application was the theme of Build on Serverless Season 2 on AWS Twitch running from April 24th until August 7th - Check out [Twitch branch for the list of 14 episodes](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/twitch).

For more up-to-date information on what's being implemented, take a look at our current [Boards](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/projects).

> **Note**
> This project is no longer being worked on. This branch repo only serves to give inspiration to others as a point in time reference, you can see the former code by viewing the [`archive` branch](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive)

![Serverless Airline Booking sample](./media/prototype-web.png)

## Deployment

To get started with the Serverless Airline application, you can deploy into your AWS Account by following our [Get Started instructions](./docs/getting_started.md)

## Stack

Summary of what the stack looks like now including a picture with the core tech:

- **Front-end** - Vue.js as the core framework, Quasar for UI, Amplify for Auth UI component and AWS integration, and Stripe JS with Stripe Elements for card tokenization, validation, etc.
- **Data** - All data is modeled after GraphQL types and stored in DynamoDB. Python being the core language for all services except Loyalty that's written in Typescript, and JavaScript for front-end.
- **API** - GraphQL is managed by AppSync and also acts as an API Hub to interact with other services. Loyalty implements a REST API to demonstrate how to secure service-to-service communication while maintaining a public endpoint. Payment API is also based on REST to demonstrate an external payment provider.
- **Auth** - Cognito provides JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and along with AppSync fine-grained authorization on what data types users can access.
- **Messaging** - Booking workflow is managed by Step Functions while SNS provides service-to-service communication through messaging between Booking and Loyalty.

![Core stack](./media/core-stack.png)

### Back-end

Back-end services that makes up the Serverless Airline functionalities as of now:

ServiceLanguageDescription[Catalog](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive/src/backend/catalog/README.md)Apache VTLProvides Flight search. CRUD operations including custom indexes are auto-generated by Amplify[Booking](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive/src/backend/booking/README.md)Python and Apache VTLProvides new and list Bookings. CRUD operations including custom indexes are auto-generated by Amplify. Business workflow is implemented in Python.[Payment](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive/src/backend/payment/README.md)YAML and PythonProvides payment authorization, collection and refund. Bulk of Payment integration with Stripe is done via a [Serverless Application Repository App](https://serverlessrepo.aws.amazon.com/applications/arn:aws:serverlessrepo:us-east-1:375983427419:applications~api-lambda-stripe-charge). Payment collection and refund operations within Booking business workflow are in Python[Loyalty](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive/src/backend/loyalty/README.md)TypescriptProvides Loyalty points for customers including tiers. Fetching and ingesting Loyalty points are implemented in Typescript.

### Front-end

See more information about our [Front-end, components, routing and convention](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-airline-booking/tree/archive/src/frontend/README.md)

**High level infrastructure architecture**

![Serverless Airline Architecture](./media/prototype-architecture.png)

## License Summary

This sample code is made available under the MIT-0 license. See the LICENSE file.