📝 Task Management REST API

A backend REST API built with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and Mongoose, developed as a hands-on project to learn real-world backend development.

🚀 Features

• 👤 User registration & login
• 🔐 JWT authentication & authorization
• 🔒 Password hashing with bcrypt
• ✅ Request validation with Joi
• 📋 Task CRUD operations
• 👥 User-owned resources
• 🔎 Filtering & text searching
• ↕️ Sorting & pagination
• ⚠️ Centralized error handling
• 🛡️ API security & input validation
• 🗄️ MongoDB & Mongoose querying
• ⚡ Database indexing & optimization
• 🧪 API testing with Postman
• 🏗️ Modular & scalable backend architecture
• 🚀 Production-ready backend practices

🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js, Express.js Database: MongoDB, Mongoose Authentication: JWT, bcrypt Validation: Joi Testing: Postman

📂 Architecture

Routes → Middleware → Controllers → Mongoose → MongoDB

The project follows a modular structure separating routes, controllers, middleware, models, and validations.

🔍 Example

GET /allTasks?status=pending&priority=high&search=node&sort=-dueDate&page=1&limit=10

Supports combining authentication, filtering, searching, sorting, and pagination in a single request.

🎯 Goal

The goal of this project is to understand how to design, build, secure, test, and optimize a real-world REST API rather than simply creating basic CRUD operations.

Build it. Understand it. Break it. Fix it. Improve it. 🚀

📌 Status

🚧 In Development — continuously expanding toward a production-ready backend.