Project Title

Exercise: Building a Customer Module with Node.js

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Requirements

The aim of this exercise is to develop a customer module for a web application using Node.js, Express.js. The module should cover CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on customer records, profile image upload, password hashing, input validation, authentication using JWT (JSON Web Tokens), ORM usage with Sequelize / Mongoose, and error handling.

Node

• Node installation on Windows

  Just go on official Node.js website and download the installer. Also, be sure to have git available in your PATH, npm might need it (You can find git here).

• Node installation on Ubuntu

  You can install nodejs and npm easily with apt install, just run the following commands.

  $ sudo apt install nodejs
  $ sudo apt install npm
  

• Other Operating Systems

  You can find more information about the installation on the official Node.js website and the official NPM website.

If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following command.

$ node --version
v21.7.3

$ npm --version
10.5.0

Yarn installation

After installing node, this project will need yarn too, so just run the following command.

  $ npm install -g yarn

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Install

$ gh repo clone priyankpatel-dev/node_exam
$ cd node_exam
$ npm install

Configure app

Open config.env then edit it with your settings. You will need:

• MongDB Connection;

Running the project as development

$ npm start

Running for production

$ npm start:prod