Shopease API

0. Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. API Documentation
3. Main Features
4. Schemas and Routes
   • Authentication Routes
   • User Routes
   • Address Routes
   • Cart Routes
   • Wishlist Routes
   • Product Routes
   • Category Routes
   • Brand Routes
   • Coupon Routes
   • Order Routes
   • Review Routes

1. Overview

A RESTful API for an ecommerce platform to manage authentication, users, cart, wishlist, addresses, products, categories, brands, coupons, orders and reviews. It is built with Express.js and uses MongoDB as a database.

2. API Documentation

Swagger is used for API documentation. To view API docs, click here.

3. Main Features

• User authentication via JSON Web Tokens
• Database modelling using various Mongoose schemas
• Centralized error handling using Express middlewares
• Validation of request payload using Joi
• Routing using Express middlewares
• Logging of HTTP requests using Morgan
• Ability to parse multipart/form-data using Formidable
• Upload and delete images using Cloudinary APIs
• Ability to send emails using Nodemailer
• Integration of Razorpay payment gateway
• Verification of email addresses and phone numbers using Abstract APIs (third party service)
• Scheduled Cron jobs to check the expiry status of coupons
• Configured PM2 to keep API and Cron jobs running as daemon processes to ensure availability
• API and Cron jobs are deployed on DigitalOcean droplet using Nginx as a web server
• Swagger for documentation of APIs

4. Schemas and Routes

Shopease API consists of 8 schemas and 70+ routes and controllers.

Authentication Routes

Action	Method	Route
Signup	POST	/auth/signup
Login	POST	/auth/login
Logout	POST	/auth/logout
Forgot password	POST	/auth/password/forgot
Reset password	PUT	/auth/password/reset/:token

User Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch profile	GET	/users/self
Update profile	PUT	/users/self
Delete account	DELETE	/users/self
Add profile photo	POST	/users/self/avatar
Remove profile photo	PUT	/users/self/avatar
Update profile photo	POST	/users/self/avatar/update
Fetch users	GET	/admin/users
Fetch user by ID	GET	/admin/users/:userId
Update user role	PUT	/admin/users/:userId
Delete user	DELETE	/admin/users/:userId
Fetch other admins	GET	/admin/admins
Admin self demote	PUT	/admin/self
Admin self delete	DELETE	/admin/self

Address Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch addresses	GET	/addresses
Add new address	POST	/addresses
Fetch address by ID	GET	/addresses/:addressId
Update address	PUT	/addresses/:addressId
Delete address	DELETE	/addresses/:addressId
Set default address	PUT	/addresses/:addressId/default

Cart Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch cart	GET	/cart
Add item to cart	POST	/cart/add
Remove item from cart	PUT	/cart/remove
Update item quantity	PUT	/cart/update
Move item to wishlist	PUT	/cart/move
Clear cart	PUT	/cart/clear

Wishlist Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch wishlist	GET	/wishlist
Add item to wishlist	PUT	/wishlist/add
Remove item from wishlist	PUT	/wishlist/remove
Move item to cart	PUT	/wishlist/move
Clear wishlist	PUT	/wishlist/clear

Product Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch products	GET	/products
Fetch product by ID	GET	/products/:productId
Admin fetch products	GET	/admin/products
Add new product	POST	/admin/products
Admin fetch product by ID	GET	/admin/products/:productId
Update product details	POST	/admin/products/:productId
Delete product	DELETE	/admin/products/:productId
Restore deleted product	PUT	/admin/products/:productId/restore

Category Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch all categories	GET	/categories
Fetch category by ID	GET	/categories/:categoryId
Add new category	POST	/admin/categories
Update category	POST	/admin/categories/:categoryId
Fetch listed categories	GET	/categories/listed

Brand Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch all brands	GET	/brands
Fetch brand by ID	GET	/brands/:brandId
Add new brand	POST	/admin/brands
Update brand	POST	/admin/brands/:brandId
Fetch listed brands	GET	/brands/listed

Coupon Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch valid coupons	GET	/coupons
Check coupon validity	GET	/coupons/validity
Admin fetch coupons	GET	/admin/coupons
Create new coupon	POST	/admin/coupons
Fetch coupon by ID	GET	/admin/coupons/:couponId
Update coupon details	PUT	/admin/coupons/:couponId
Delete coupon	DELETE	/admin/coupons/:couponId
Activate coupon	PUT	/admin/coupons/:couponId/activate
Deactivate coupon	PUT	/admin/coupons/:couponId/deactivate

Order Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch orders	GET	/orders
Create new order	POST	/orders
Fetch order by ID	GET	/orders/:orderId
Confirm order	PUT	/orders/:orderId/confirm
Cancel order	PUT	/orders/:orderId/cancel
Admin fetch orders	GET	/admin/orders
Admin fetch order by ID	GET	/admin/orders/:orderId
Update order status	PUT	/admin/orders/:orderId
Delete order	DELETE	/admin/orders/:orderId

Review Routes

Action	Method	Route
Fetch product reviews	GET	/products/:productId/reviews
Add product review	POST	/products/:productId/reviews
Fetch review by ID	GET	/reviews/:reviewId
Update product review	PUT	/reviews/:reviewId