🧑‍💻 Minimal User REST API with Node.js, Express & MongoDB

A simple and modular REST API built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to handle:

• ✅ User registration and login
• 🔐 Authentication & JWT authorization
• 🧠 Password hashing with bcryptjs
• 🖼️ User-specific data: saved artworks (favourites)
• 📜 Search history tracking

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🔧 Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB (with Mongoose)
• bcryptjs – for password hashing
• jsonwebtoken – for issuing JWT tokens
• passport & passport-jwt – for authentication middleware
• dotenv – for managing environment variables
• CORS – for cross-origin support

🚀 Try the App

📦 Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/user-api.git
cd user-api

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Create .env File

Create a .env file in the root directory with the following:

PORT=8080
JWT_SECRET=create_your_own_secret_key
MONGO_URL=your_mongo_url_here

4. Run the server

node server.js

5. Test the API

Use Postman or any HTTP client to test the API by making requests to the endpoints.

POST /api/user/register — Register a new user

POST /api/user/login — Login and receive a JWT<your_token>

Use the JWT to access protected routes like:

• GET /api/user/favourites
• PUT /api/user/favourites/:id
• DELETE /api/user/favourites/:id
• GET /api/user/history
• PUT /api/user/history/:id
• DELETE /api/user/history/:id

Include the JWT token in the Authorization header like this:

Authorization: jwt <your_token>

📄 License

MIT License

✍️ Author

Sonam Jamtsho

📧 sjjamtsho@gmail.com | 🔗 LinkedIn