CourseHeaven

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📚 CourseHeaven - Learning & Course Management Platform

A full-stack backend server built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB for managing users, admins, and course content. This API supports authentication, authorization, course preview, purchase, and secure admin-level content creation and management.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ User & Admin Signup/Login with validation
• 🔐 JWT-based Authentication & Middleware Protection
• 🎓 Admins can create and update course content (including videos)
• 💰 Users can preview and purchase courses (Payment gateway integration ready)
• 📦 Purchase history for users
• 📁 Modular code structure (controllers, routes, middlewares, models)

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🗂️ Project Structure

├── controllers/ # Request handlers

│ ├── adminController.js

│ ├── courseController.js

│ └── userController.js

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├── middlewares/ # Middlewares for auth and validation

│ ├── adminMw.js

│ ├── rateLimiter.js

│ ├── userMw.js

│ ├── validateAdminSignin.js

│ ├── validateAdminSignup.js

│ ├── validateUserSignin.js

│ └── validateUserSignup.js

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├── models/ # Mongoose schemas

│ └── db.js

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├── routes/ # Express routes

│ ├── adminRoutes.js

│ ├── courseRoutes.js

│ └── userRoutes.js

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├── .env # Environment variables

├── .env.example # Template for environment variables

├── .gitignore

├── package.json

├── README.md

└── server.js # Entry point

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🔐 API Authentication

• JWT-based with secret keys stored in .env
• Middleware functions (adminMw.js, userMw.js) protect restricted routes

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📦 Routes Overview

👤 User Routes

Method	Endpoint	Middleware	Description
POST	/signup	validateUserSignup	Register a new user
POST	/signin	validateUserSignin	Login user and get token
GET	/purchases	userMiddleware	View purchased courses

🎓 Course Routes

Method	Endpoint	Middleware	Description
POST	/purchase	userMiddleware	Purchase a course (mock payment)
GET	/preview	-	Public course preview

🛠️ Admin Routes

Method	Endpoint	Middleware	Description
POST	/signup	validateAdminSignup	Register new admin
POST	/signin	validateAdminSignin	Login admin and get token
POST	/course	adminMiddleware	Create a new course
PUT	/course/:id	adminMiddleware	Update existing course
GET	/course/bulk	adminMiddleware	Get all courses created by admin

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🛠️ Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB & Mongoose
• ZOD for Input Validation
• JWT Authentication
• Bcrypt for Password Hashing
• dotenv for Config Management

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🧪 Running the Project

1. Clone the repo

git clone <https://github.com/titanjagpreet/CourseHeaven.git>
cd CourseHeaven

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Configure Environment

Create a .env file in the root directory using .env.example as a template:

PORT=5000
MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_uri
JWT_USER_SECRET=your_user_jwt_secret
JWT_ADMIN_SECRET=your_admin_jwt_secret

4. Start the Server

npm run start

Server runs on http://localhost:5000 (or your specified port).

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📌 To-Do / Future Features

• 🧾 Integrate Stripe or Razorpay for real payments
• 🎥 Upload & host real video content (e.g. AWS S3, Cloudinary)
• ✍️ Admin course editing dashboard (frontend)
• 📊 Admin analytics (sales, views)
• ✅ Use cookies instead of JWT for authentication
• 🔧 Frontend in EJS (low priority)
• ⚛️ Frontend in React for better UI/UX and SPA functionality

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🤝 Contributing

PRs and suggestions are welcome! If you find a bug or want a feature, feel free to open an issue.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👨‍💻 Author

Jagpreet Singh – @titanjagpreet