🚀 Project Management Backend API

A scalable and production-ready REST API built with Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB for managing projects, team members, tasks, subtasks, and notes.

Designed using a modular architecture with authentication, authorization, request validation, and reusable utilities to keep the codebase clean and maintainable.

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✨ Features

🔐 Authentication & Security

• User Registration
• User Login
• JWT Authentication
• Access & Refresh Tokens
• Email Verification
• Protected Routes
• Role-Based Authorization

📁 Project Management

• Create Project
• Update Project
• Delete Project
• Get All Projects
• Get Project by ID

👥 Team Management

• Add Members to Project
• View Project Members
• Update Member Roles
• Remove Members
• Permission-based Access Control

✅ Task Management

• Create Tasks
• Manage Subtasks
• Track Project Progress

📝 Notes

• Create Notes
• Organize Notes Project-wise

⚡ Backend Features

• Request Validation
• Centralized Error Handling
• Async Error Wrapper
• Modular Folder Structure
• RESTful API Design
• MongoDB Aggregation
• Environment Variable Support

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🛠 Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
Node.js	Runtime
Express.js	Backend Framework
MongoDB	Database
Mongoose	ODM
JWT	Authentication
Nodemailer	Email Verification
dotenv	Environment Variables
CORS	Cross-Origin Requests

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📂 Project Structure

backend-project/
│
├── controllers/
├── models/
├── routes/
├── middlewares/
├── validators/
├── utils/
├── db/
│
├── app.js
├── index.js
│
└── .env

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⚙ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yishaan8/backend-project.git

Move into the project

cd backend-project

Install dependencies

npm install

Create a .env file

PORT=5000

MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection

ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_secret

REFRESH_TOKEN_SECRET=your_secret

CORS_ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000

Run the server

npm start

or

npm run dev

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🔑 Authentication Flow

User Registration
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Verification Email Sent
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Email Verification
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User Login
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Access Token + Refresh Token
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Protected APIs

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📌 API Modules

Authentication

• Register User
• Login User
• Verify Email
• Refresh Tokens

Projects

• Get All Projects
• Get Project by ID
• Create Project
• Update Project
• Delete Project

Members

• Add Members
• Get Members
• Update Member Role
• Remove Member

Tasks

• CRUD Operations

Subtasks

• CRUD Operations

Notes

• CRUD Operations

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🛡 Security Features

• JWT Authentication
• Refresh Token Support
• Email Verification
• Protected Routes
• Role-Based Permissions
• Request Validation

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📈 Future Improvements

• Docker Support
• Swagger API Documentation
• Unit & Integration Testing
• Redis Caching
• Rate Limiting
• Logging with Winston
• CI/CD Pipeline
• File Upload Support
• API Versioning

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👨‍💻 Author

Ishaan Yadav

GitHub: https://github.com/yishaan8

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