Manager Dashboard API

About the Project

Manager Dashboard API serves as the backend foundation for a management platform. Its main goal is to provide secure and well-structured endpoints to support a future front-end interface (planned with React + TypeScript). It’s designed to handle large amounts of product and user data with scalability and security in mind.

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✨ Key Features

• Secure authentication using JWT (register and login).
• Full CRUD for users (create, read, update, delete).
• Scalable architecture ready to manage other resources (e.g., products, clients, projects).
• Clear route and controller structure to simplify front-end integration.
• Focus on scalability and best practices.

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🛠️ Technologies

• Node.js
• Express.js
• (Planned/expected) MongoDB with Mongoose
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• (Planned) TypeScript for future improvements

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📂 Project Structure (overview)

Manager_dashboard/
├─ backend/
│  ├─ controllers/       # business logic for endpoints
│  ├─ models/            # Mongoose models (users, products, etc.)
│  ├─ routes/            # route definitions
│  ├─ middleware/        # authentication, validation, and error handling
│  ├─ utils/            # configuration files 
│  ├─ app.js   # main server entry point
│  └─ package.json
├─ .gitignore
└─ README.md

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⚙️ Requirements

• Node.js (LTS version recommended)
• npm
• MongoDB (local or Atlas) — if using another database, update the data layer accordingly.

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🔑 Environment Variables (example)

Create a .env file in the backend root directory with the following values:

PORT=3000
MONGO_URI=mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@cluster0.mongodb.net/manager_dashboard?retryWrites=true&w=majority
JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key_here
SendGrid=your_secret_key_here

Modify variable names and values as needed.

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🚀 Installation & Run Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/VitorPio7/Manager_dashboard.git
cd Manager_dashboard/backend

2. Install dependencies:

npm install

3. Set up your .env file (see the previous section)

4. Run in development mode:

npm run dev
# or
node index.js
# or
npm start

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✅ Best Practices

• Validate input using express-validator or similar.
• Implement centralized error handling middleware.
• Use helmet, cors, and a rate limiter in production.
• Keep a clean separation of concerns (controllers, services, repositories).

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📄 License

You may include an open-source license such as MIT. If not already included, consider adding a LICENSE file to the repository.

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📬 Contact

For questions or suggestions, please open an issue in the repository.