Inventory Management App Backend

This is the backend for Stockflow - a full-stack Inventory Management Application.

Tech Stack

Server: Node, Express

Database: MongoDB

Third-Party: mongoose, multer, cloudinary, jsonwebtoken, bcrypt, cors, cookie-parser

Features

• RESTfull API made with Node and Express
• CRUD Operations on models like user and product
• Authentication and Authorization using jsonwebtokens and cookies
• Images received and stored via multer and coudinary

Roadmap

• Planning the project

• Build RESTfull backend (check out backend repo)

• Test Api's using Postman

• Deploy Backend

• Build Frontend

• Deploy Frontend

Lessons Learned

I have learned a lot of things while building this project especially working with jsonwebtokens and cookies. I became familier with the concept of access and refresh tokens and how to keep user data secure with cookies. I have also learned about mongoose and mongoDB and got used to designing and creating database models. Overall, I can now build robust RESTfull backend systems with ease. This project inspired to work more on backend projects.

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

DATABASE_URI

PORT

CORS_ORIGIN

ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET

ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY

REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRY

CLOUD_NAME

API_KEY

API_SECRET

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/S-jenishPatel/Stockflow-Backend.git

Go to the project directory

  cd my-project

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  npm run start

Author

• @Jenish Patel