An employee web portal for managing pet boarding and grooming operations, built with TypeScript across the full Express and MongoDB stack. Six domain models — Guests, Clients, Visits, Employees, Kennels, and Services — form an interconnected data layer where visits cross-reference assigned kennels, scheduled services, and check-in state. The visit workflow covers the full operational cycle: scheduling with kennel assignment, check-in and check-out with occupancy tracking, per-service completion logging, and computed billing.
[key features]
Employees manage daily boarding operations — scheduling visits, assigning kennels, tracking service completion, and processing billing — with role-based views separating standard workflows from administrative functions.
- Six domain models with cross-referenced relationships — Visits track Guests, Kennels, and Services; Guests reference their owner Client
- Visit lifecycle from scheduling through kennel assignment, check-in, per-service completion tracking, check-out, and billing
- Two-tier access control: all employees see operational views, admin-flagged users manage employees, kennels, and services
- Defense-in-depth validation: Joi schemas with custom HTML sanitization extension, Mongoose validation, express-mongo-sanitize, and Helmet CSP
- Password reset via time-limited crypto tokens with transactional email confirmation
[implementation details]
Domain Architecture
- Six Mongoose models with cross-referenced relationships: Visits reference Guests, Kennels, and Services; Guests reference their owner Client and visit history; Kennels track current occupancy
- Visit model virtuals deriving duration, billing cost, current/upcoming status, and service completion state
Access & Security
- Passport.js session authentication with two-tier middleware:
isLoggedIngates all employee routes,isAdminrestricts management of Employees, Kennels, and Services - Layered input defense: Joi validates structure with a custom extension that strips HTML via sanitize-html, followed by Mongoose schema validation, plus express-mongo-sanitize and Helmet CSP at the request level
Operations & UX
- Kennel occupancy management: assignments track through visit check-in and check-out, with filtered views showing occupied vs. available kennels
- Cloudinary image uploads for guest profiles, fuzzy search across records, paginated views, dynamic breadcrumb navigation, and input masking for formatted data entry
