Project Management API

A RESTful and Real-Time API built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Socket.IO for managing workspaces, projects, tasks, and comments — following a clean Repository–Service pattern for scalability and testability.

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🚀 Features

• User authentication with JWT
• Workspaces and projects management
• Tasks CRUD operations with assigned users
• Comments under tasks
• Project and task statistics
• Real-time collaboration using Socket.IO
• Live task creation, updates, and deletions
• Real-time project updates
• User-specific event emission
• Clean architecture (Repository + Service layers)
• Unit and integration testing with Jest

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🧱 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• Socket.IO
• Jest

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Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

PORT=3000 NODE_ENV=development

DATABASE=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/projectify DATABASE_TEST=mongodb://localhost:27017/projectify_test

JWT_SECRET= JWT_EXPIRES_IN=90d JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRES_IN=90

EMAIL_USERNAME= EMAIL_PASSWORD= EMAIL_HOST=sandbox.smtp.mailtrap.io EMAIL_PORT=2525

Running the App

npm install
npm start

Testing the App

npm test