🔗 Connectify API

A mini social networking backend built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and JWT Auth. Features include user authentication, sending/accepting connection requests, managing profiles, and a personalized user feed with pagination.

🧠 Features

👤 User Signup & Login (JWT + Cookies)

🛡️ Protected routes with middleware

🔄 Send/Accept/Reject Connection Requests

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 View list of accepted connections

📡 User Feed showing non-connected users (with pagination)

✏️ Edit user profile and update password securely

🧪 Validations using validator & custom Mongoose validations

⚙️ Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js, Express.js

Database: MongoDB (Mongoose)

Auth: JWT (stored in HTTP-only cookies)

Validation: validator, bcrypt

Environment: dotenv

📂 Project Structure

├── config/ │ └── database.js ├── modals/ │ ├── userSchema.js │ └── connectionReq.js ├── routes/ │ ├── auth.js │ ├── profile.js │ ├── request.js │ └── connections.js ├── middlewares/ │ └── auth.js ├── utils/ │ └── validation.js ├── .env ├── app.js └── README.md

🔐 Environment Setup

Create a .env file in the root directory: PORT=3000 MONGODB_URL=your_mongodb_connection_string JWT_SECRET_KEY=your_jwt_secret

#▶️ Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Dipika-Gandash/Connectify_API cd Connectify_API

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Start the server

npm start Server will start on: http://localhost:3000

✅ Validations & Security

Passwords are hashed using bcrypt

Strong password rules enforced (min 8 chars, 1 upper, 1 lower, 1 symbol, 1 number)

Token is verified in userAuth middleware before protected routes

Input data is validated using validator.js and Mongoose rules

Users can't send duplicate or self-requests