🛒 Hamro Bazzar Backend – Online eCommerce Platform

This is the backend REST API for Hamro Bazzar, an eCommerce platform.
It handles product management, category-based APIs, orders, payments, and secure server-side logic.

🚀 Features

• 🛒 Product APIs (Electronics, Gaming, Home Furniture, Personal Care)
• ⭐ Featured & Offered products
• 🗂️ Category-based product filtering
• 📦 Order & payment APIs
• 🔐 Security best practices:
  • Helmet (security headers)
  • CORS protection
  • Rate limiting
• 📊 Request logging with Morgan
• 🧩 Modular route structure
• 🔌 MongoDB integration

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🧑‍💻 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• dotenv
• helmet
• cors
• express-rate-limit
• morgan

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📁 Project Structure

backend/
├── routes/
│ ├── electronics.routes.js
│ ├── gaming.routes.js
│ ├── homeFurniture.routes.js
│ ├── personalCare.routes.js
│ ├── featuredProducts.routes.js
│ ├── offeredProducts.routes.js
│ ├── allProducts.routes.js
│ ├── payments-routes/
│ │ └── order.routes.js
│ └── category-products-routes/
│ ├── electronics.routes.js
│ ├── gaming.routes.js
│ ├── homeFurniture.routes.js
│ └── personalCare.routes.js
├── models/
├── controllers/
├── server.js
├── .env.development
├── .env.production
└── README.md

⚙️ Environment Variables

⚠️ Never commit .env.development files to GitHub.

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🛠️ Installation & Setup Clone the repository

git clone

Install dependencies

npm install

Run in development

npm run dev

Run in production

npm start

🔐 Security & Performance

• CORS restricted to frontend domain
• Rate limiting: 800 requests / 15 minutes per IP
• Helmet for secure HTTP headers
• Graceful shutdown for server & database

📈 Future Improvements

• Authentication & authorization (JWT)
• Admin dashboard APIs
• Order history & tracking
• Webhooks for payment gateways
• Redis caching

👨‍💻 Author

Bibas Yonghang

MERN Stack Developer

📄 License

This project is not under any license yet.

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