Gifts and More API

• API for an ecommerce site
• Its deployed on render
• CI/CD with Github Actions, deploys and releases tag on succes

Setup

• Install packages

   npm install

• Run the dev server

   npm run dev

• For linting,fixing linting and test coverage, refer to scripts in the package.json file

Postman docs

• postman docs

Database Connection

1. Import connect.js
2. Invoke in start()
3. Setup .env in the root
4. Add MONGO_URI with correct value

Routers

• auth
• gifts
• users

Middleware

• authentication
• error-handler for Validation Errors, Duplicate ,Cast Error and other errors

File uploading

• express-fileupload
• Cloudinary, cloudinary-npm

User Model

Extra Tasks done in the model

• Password hashing
• Token creation
• Comparing password with bcrypt
• Default role is user

Register User

• Validate - name, email and password - with Mongoose
• Hash Password (with bcryptjs)
• Save User
• Generate Token
• Send Response with Token

Login User

• Validate - email, password - in controller
• If email or password is missing, throw BadRequestError
• Find User
• Compare Passwords
• If no user or password does not match, throw UnauthenticatedError
• If correct, generate Token
• Send Response with Token

Security

• helmet
• cors
• xss-clean
• express-rate-limit