Trip In

Backend code for a fullstack (MERN) ecommerce project

Frontend Link - Medico

For frontend check this repo - Click Here

API Link - Medico

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Developer

Lakshay Saini

• Github: @lakshay-saini-au8
• Linkedin: @lakshay-saini-dev

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Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js and a node global package installed in your environement.

Project Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:lakshay-saini-au8/medico-backend.git
$ cd medico-backend

Run npm install

$ npm i

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Running The Project

$ npm run dev

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Configuration for the App

For backend

.env file in the root and edit it with your credentials. You will need:

• PORT = 9999
• MONGODB_CLOUD_URL=Your Database Address
• SECRET_KEY=your secret key

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BackEnd NPM Packages Used -

• bcrypt - We are using bcrypt module to hash password of the user. It's an npm module that you can find it out here at bcrypt.

• cors - It is used as a middleware in Node.JS. Check it out here - cors.

• dotenv - It is used to load environment variables from a .env file into process.env. You can find it out here - dotenv.

• express - It's the web framework for Node.js that we used to structure our web application. You can find more details here express.

• jsonwebtoken - We used to create access tokens for our application. For more details check here - jsonwebtoken.

• mongoose - We used Mongoose because it provides a schema-based solution to model our application data with MongoDB. Which has many features to use example - validation of user's data. For more details check here - mongoose.

• joi - we have used this for validating data --> data sent in req.body. - joi.

• morgan - it is a logger middleware, which basically logs api call with status on the terminal and helps us (developers) to know that which api was called- morgan.

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