Dushi Bida Apartment Site
A booking site allowing guests to reserve an apartment in Curaçao.
Dushi Bida is a holiday apartment on Curaçao. It already had a site: WordPress, with a plugin handling the bookings. That plugin had stopped being maintained — an abandoned dependency with known security issues, sitting on exactly the part of the site where guests leave their dates and their details. Around it, plenty of enquiries still went through email anyway: guests asked whether a week was still free, waited for a reply, and the owner kept the calendar in their head.
Rather than swap one unmaintained plugin for the next, booking is now part of the application itself. Guests can see the apartment and its surroundings, check which dates are available, and reserve directly — so an enquiry turns into a booking in a single visit instead of a thread of messages, on code that is actually maintained.
It is built as a modern web application with a React front end on a Node.js and TypeScript back end, and it is deployed and live.