This project is a a clone of a user management service for a community messaging app like stack overflow, developed for my capstone software engineering class (hence the lack of commit history). It provides a set of APIs to handle user-related operations such as creating a new user, adding a comment, retrieving user details, updating user information, deleting a user, and authenticating a user.

Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• TypeScript

Database Architecture

The schemas for the database are documented in the directory server/models/schema. A class diagram for the schema definition is shown below:

API Routes

/answer

Endpoint	Method	Description
/addAnswer	POST	Add a new answer

/comment

Endpoint	Method	Description
/addComment	POST	Add a new comment

/messaging

Endpoint	Method	Description
/addMessage	POST	Add a new message
/getMessages	GET	Retrieve all messages

/question

Endpoint	Method	Description
/getQuestion	GET	Fetch questions by filter
/getQuestionById/	GET	Fetch a specific question by ID
/addQuestion	POST	Add a new question
/upvoteQuestion	POST	Upvote a question
/downvoteQuestion	POST	Downvote a question

/tag

Endpoint	Method	Description
/getTagsWithQuestionNumber	GET	Fetch tags along with the number of questions
/getTagByName/	GET	Fetch a specific tag by name

/user

Endpoint	Method	Description
/signup	POST	Create a new user account
/login	POST	Log in as a user
/resetPassword	PATCH	Reset user password
/getUser/	GET	Fetch user details by username
/deleteUser/	DELETE	Delete a user by username