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Done so far...

• initialized git

• .gitignore

• Create a remote repo on github

• Push all code to remote origin

• Play with routes and route extensions ex. /hello, / , hello/2, /xyz

• Order of the routes matter a lot

• Installed Postman app and make a workspace/collectio > test API call

• Wrote logic to handle GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE API Calls and test them on Postman

• Explored routing and use of ?, + , (), * in the routes

• Use of regex in routes /a/ , /.*fly$/

• Readed the query params in the routes

• Readed the dynamic routes

• Multiple Route Handlers - Play with the code

• next()

• next function and errors along with res.send()

• app.use("/route", rH, [rH2, rH3], rH4, rh5);

• What is a Middleware? Why do we need it?

• How express JS basically handles requests behind the scenes

• Difference app.use and app.all

• Wrote a dummy auth middleware for admin

• Wrote a dummy auth middleware for all user routes, except /user/login

• Error Handling using app.use("/", (err, req, res, next) = {});

• Create a free cluster on MongoDB official website (Mongo Atlas)

• Installed mongoose library

• Connect your application to the Database "Connection-url"/devTinder

• Call the connectDB function and connect to database before starting application on 7777

• Created a userSchema & user Model

• Created POST /sigup API to add data to database

• Push some documents using API calls from postman

• Error Handling using try , catch

• JS object vs JSON (difference)

• Added the express.json middleware to your app

• Make your signup API dynamic to recive data from the end user

• User.findOne with duplucate email ids, which object returned

• API- Get user by email

• API - Feed API - GET /feed - get all the users from the database

• API - Get user by ID

• Created a delete user API

• Difference between PATCH and PUT

• API - Update a user

• Explored the Mongoose Documention for Model methods

• What are options in a Model.findOneAndUpdate method, Explored more about it

• API - Update the user with email ID

• Explored schematype options from the documention

• added required, unique, lowercase, min, minLength, trim

• Added default

• Created a custom validate function for gender

• Improved the DB schema - PUT all appropiate validations on each field in Schema

• Added timestamps to the userSchema

• Added API level validation on Patch request & Signup post api

• DATA Sanitizing - Add API validation for each field

• Installed validator

• Explored validator library funcation and Use vlidator funcs for password, email, photoURL

• NEVER TRUST req.body

• Validate data in Signup API

• Installed bcrypt package

• Created PasswordHash using bcrypt.hash & save the user is excrupted password

• Created login API

• Compared passwords and throw errors if email or password is invalid

• Installed cookie-parser

• just send a dummy cookie to user

• Created GET /profile APi and check if you get the cookie back

• Installed jsonwebtoken

• IN login API, after email and password validation, create e JWT token and send it to user in cookies

• read the cookies inside your profile API and find the logged in user

• Installed jsonwebtoken

• IN login API, after email and password validation, create e JWT token and send it to user in cookies

• read the cookies inside your profile API and find the logged in user

• userAuth Middleware

• Added the userAuth middle ware in profile API and a new sendConnectionRequest API

• Set the expiry of JWT token and cookies to 7 days

• Created userSchema method to getJWT()

• Created UserSchema method to comparepassword(passwordInputByUser)

• Created routes folder for managing auth,profile, request routers

• created authRouter, profileRouter, requestRouter

• Imported these routers in app.js

• Created POST /logout API

• Created PATCH /profile/edit

• Created PATCH /profile/password API => forgot password API