🛒 E-Commerce Backend API

A fully-featured e-commerce backend API built using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. This project supports user authentication, product management, shopping cart, order processing, wishlists, reviews, and more — ideal for powering a modern online store.

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🚀 Features

• User Authentication (Sign up, Sign in, Sign out)
• Role-based Access (Admin & Customer)
• Product Management (CRUD operations, filtering, and search)
• Cart Management (Add, remove, update items)
• Order Processing (Place orders, view history)
• Wishlist functionality
• Product Reviews
• Email Notifications via Nodemailer
• Admin Controls: Manage users, products, and orders
• Secure Routes with JWT authentication
• Mongoose Models for data structure
• RESTful API design

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🧱 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• JWT for Auth
• Nodemailer (for email notifications)
• Postman (for API testing)
• bcrypt (password hashing)
• dotenv (environment config)

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Create a .env file and add the following:

PORT=3000
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
EMAIL_USER=your_email@gmail.com
EMAIL_PASS=your_app_password

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Use Postman to test the API endpoints.

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📧 Email Notifications

Email notifications are sent upon successful order placement using Nodemailer. .

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🔐 Security

• Passwords are hashed using bcrypt
• Routes protected with JWT tokens
• Admin-only access via middleware

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🧠 Future Improvements

• WebSocket notifications for real-time updates
• Payment gateway integration
• Product recommendations

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🙋‍♀️ Author

Contact: nouranmahmoud252@gmail.com