ludralph / user-crud-api

A MERN web application with user create, update, delete (CRUD) with authentication and authorization capabilities

Introduction

This application will encapsulate rudimentary features and workflow repeated for most mern applications. This will be a fully functioning app with User Create, Update and Delete with authentication-authorization capabilities.

Features

1. Signup: User can register by creating a new account using an email address.

2. User List: Any visitor can see the list of all registered users.

3. Authentication: Registered users can sign in and sign out.

4. Protected User Profile: only registered users can view individual user details after signing in.

5. Authorized user Edit and Delete: Only a registered and authenticated user can edit or remove their own user account details.

API endpoints for user crud

Operation	API route	HTTP method
create a user	/api/users	POST
List all users	/api/users	GET
Fetch a user	/api/users/:userId	GET
Update a user	/api/users/:userId	PUT
Delete a user	/api/users/:userId	DELETE
User sign-in	/auth/signin	POST
User sign-out	/auth/signout	GET

What you need to run this code

1. Node
2. NPM
3. MongoDB

How to run this code

1. Make sure MongoDB is running on your system
2. Clone this repository
3. Open command line in the cloned folder,
4. To install dependencies, run npm install
5. To run the application for development, run npm run development
6. Open localhost:3000 in the browser