/jobs-api-heroku

Simple Node.js application that provides a user friendly system for job management. It includes JWT authentication and is backed by MongoDB database. Once authenticated, users can create, update, retrieve, and delete jobs.

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Job Board API

This project is a simple Node.js application that provides a user friendly system for job management. It includes JWT authentication and is backed by MongoDB database. Once authenticated, users can create, update, retrieve, and delete jobs.

Features

  • JWT authentication for secure user login
  • MongoDB database for storing job data
  • Create, update, retrieve, and delete job functionality
  • Hosted on Heroku for easy deployment and scalability

Prerequisites

  • Node.js and npm installed
  • MongoDB Atlas account and cluster created
  • Heroku account (is paid now)

Installation

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Run npm install to install the project's dependencies.
  3. Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following variables:
MONGO_URI=<MONGODB_ATLAST_URI>
JWT_SECRET=<YOUR_JWT_SECRETE>
JWT_EXPIRY=<EXPIRY>
PORT=<PORT>
  1. Start the development server using Nodemon.
npm run dev

Deployment

This application is ready to be deployed to Heroku. To do so, you will need to set up a MongoDB instance and a Heroku account. Then, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new heroku app
heroku create jobs-api

  1. Set environment variables as per above

  2. Push code to Heroku

git push heroku main
  1. Open the app
heroku open

License

This project is licensed under the License: MIT.