🏗 Worker Management REST API

A production-style RESTful backend service for managing construction workers, their daily wages and weekly work-site schedules.

This project digitizes manual labour attendance tracking used in small construction projects and provides a scalable API for dashboard or mobile integration.

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🚀 Features

• Worker CRUD operations
• Weekly site allocation system
• Reset weekly schedules globally
• Default wage handling
• MongoDB persistence
• Clean REST architecture
• Frontend ready API (React / Mobile)

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🧠 Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Runtime	Node.js
Framework	Express.js
Database	MongoDB
ODM	Mongoose
Config	dotenv
Security	CORS

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📁 Folder Structure

worker-management-api
│
├── models
│   └── Worker.js
│
├── routes
│   └── workers.js
│
├── .env
├── index.js
├── package.json

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⚙️ Installation

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/worker-management-api.git
cd worker-management-api

Install dependencies

npm install

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🔐 Environment Variables

Create .env file

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
PORT=5000

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▶️ Run Server

npm start

Server runs at

http://localhost:5000

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📡 API Endpoints

Get All Workers

GET /api/workers

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Add Worker

POST /api/workers

Body:

{
  "name": "Rahul",
  "dailyRate": 1350,
  "schedule": {
    "S": "",
    "M": "Site A",
    "T": "",
    "W": "",
    "Th": "",
    "F": "",
    "St": ""
  }
}

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Update Worker

PUT /api/workers/:id

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Delete Worker

DELETE /api/workers/:id

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Reset Weekly Sites

PUT /api/workers/reset-sites

Resets schedule for all workers.

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📊 Example Response

{
  "_id": "65f1a6f3c7d3b2a12c9c1e22",
  "name": "Akshay",
  "dailyRate": 1350,
  "schedule": {
    "S": "",
    "M": "Building Site",
    "T": "",
    "W": "",
    "Th": "",
    "F": "",
    "St": ""
  }
}

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🧩 Use Case

Designed for:

• Contractors
• Site supervisors
• Small construction companies
• Labour management dashboards

Replaces paper attendance register with structured digital records.

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🔗 Frontend Integration

This API is designed to connect with React dashboards or mobile apps for real-time worker tracking and wage calculation.

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👨‍💻 Author

Salmanul Faris K MERN Stack Developer

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📜 License

MIT License

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