https://github.com/moathshraim/nodejs-rest-api-project-structure-express

Nodejs project structure practices for building RESTful APIs using Express framework and MongoDB.
https://github.com/moathshraim/nodejs-rest-api-project-structure-express

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Nodejs project structure practices for building RESTful APIs using Express framework and MongoDB.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/moathshraim/nodejs-rest-api-project-structure-express
• Owner: MoathShraim
• Created: 2019-11-05T09:51:29.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-22T12:58:41.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-20T06:10:26.601Z (about 24 hours ago)
• Topics: express, expressjs, javascript, jwt-authentication, mongodb, mongoose, nodejs, restful-api
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 103 KB
• Stars: 353
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 143
• Open Issues: 7
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Node.js, Express and MongoDB Project Structure 

This is a basic project structure to help you to start building your own RESTful web APIs (for Android, IOS, or JavaScript framworks) using Express framework and MongoDB with a good structure practices based on clean MVC Architecture.

# Features

- Fundamental of Express: routing, middleware, sending response and more

- Fundamental of Mongoose: Data models, data validation and middleware

- RESTful API including pagination,sorting and limiting fields

- CRUD operations with MongoDB

- Security: encyption, sanitization and more

- Authentication with JWT : login and signup

- Authorization (User roles and permissions)

- Error handling

- Enviroment Varaibles

- handling error outside Express

- Catching Uncaught Exception

# Project Structure

- server.js : Responsible for connecting the MongoDB and starting the server.

- app.js : Configure everything that has to do with Express application. 

- config.env: for Enviroment Varaiables

- routes -> userRoutes.js: The goal of the route is to guide the request to the correct handler function which will be in one of the controllers

- controllers -> userController.js: Handle the application request, interact with models and send back the response to the client 

- models -> userModel.js: (Business logic) related to business rules, how the business works and business needs ( Creating new user in the database, checking if the user password is correct, validating user input data)