UniHousing backend

REST API with Node.js, TypeScript, Typegoose & Zod

Coded this backend for a personal project for university housing. This backend works in paar with a react native front-end.

Features

1. Register a user
2. Verify user's email address
3. Send forgot password email
4. Reset password
5. Get current user
6. Login
7. Access token
8. Refresh tokens
9. [...]

What technology are we using?

• TypeScript - Static tye checking
• Express@5 - Web server
• Typegoose - Mongoose wrapper for creating TypeScript interfaces and models
• argon2 - Password hashing
• Zod - Validation
• jsonwebtoken - Signing and verifying JSON web tokens
• Nodemailer - Sending emails
• Pino - Logging
• config - Managing configuration

What will you need to follow along?

• Postman
• Node.js
• MongoDB