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E-commerce API

This project is an e-commerce API built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. It provides a robust backend solution for managing products, users, orders, and authentication within an e-commerce platform.

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Features

• User Authentication & Authorization: Secure user management with JWT (JSON Web Tokens) for authentication and role-based authorization (e.g., admin, user).
• Product Management: CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations for products, including details like name, description, price, categories, and stock.
• Order Processing: Functionality for users to create orders, view their order history, and for administrators to manage order statuses.
• Shopping Cart: Users can add and remove items from their cart, which persists across sessions.
• Category Management: Organize products into various categories for easier navigation and filtering.
• Search & Filtering: Robust search capabilities and filtering options for products based on categories, price ranges, and other attributes.
• Image Uploads: Support for uploading product images (likely via a cloud storage service or local file system).
• Payment Integration (Placeholder): Designed to be extensible for integrating various payment gateways.
• Admin Panel (API-driven): Provides endpoints for administrative tasks such as managing users, products, and orders.

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API Endpoints

(A detailed list of API endpoints with their HTTP methods, routes, request bodies, and response structures would typically go here. As I don't have access to the actual code beyond the repository name, this is a placeholder. You would generate this based on your Express routes.)

Example structure:

Authentication

• POST /api/auth/register - Register a new user
• POST /api/auth/login - Log in a user and receive a JWT

Users

• GET /api/users - Get all users (Admin only)
• GET /api/users/:id - Get a single user by ID
• PUT /api/users/:id - Update a user by ID
• DELETE /api/users/:id - Delete a user by ID (Admin only)

Products

• GET /api/products - Get all products
• GET /api/products/:id - Get a single product by ID
• POST /api/products - Create a new product (Admin only)
• PUT /api/products/:id - Update a product by ID (Admin only)
• DELETE /api/products/:id - Delete a product by ID (Admin only)

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name).
3. Make your changes.
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/your-feature-name).
6. Open a Pull Request.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details. (If you have a LICENSE file in your repository, ensure its content is correct.)

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