This is the backend for My Reader Journey, a web application that helps readers track and organize their books.
It was developed in February 2024 as the final capstone project of the Epicode Full-Stack Developer course.

👉 Frontend repo
👉 View site here

• RESTful API built with Express.js
• CRUD operations for books:
  • ➕ Add new books
  • 📖 Mark books as read / to read
  • ❤️ Favorite books
  • 🌟 Assign ratings
  • 🗑️ Delete books
  • 🔍 Filter and search books
• Authentication with JWT for protected routes (login required for managing books)
• Data stored in MongoDB (cloud)

• Node.js (runtime)
• Express.js (web library)
• MongoDB + Mongoose (database & ODM)
• dotenv (environment variable management)
• JWT (JSON Web Tokens) (authentication & authorization)
• Cors / body-parser / nodemon (middleware & dev tools)

The /api/users/password-reset/request endpoint sends a verification code by email.

• If you deploy on Railway and use SMTP (for example Gmail on port 465), the connection can time out on Free / Trial / Hobby plans because outbound SMTP may be blocked.
• In that setup the backend currently answers with 502 Unable to send reset email right now. Please try again later.
• The supported workaround in this project is to use Resend over HTTPS:
  • set MAIL_PROVIDER=resend
  • set RESEND_API_KEY=...
  • set MAIL_FROM=My Reader Journey <[email protected]> for testing, or your verified domain for production

See .env.example for the exact variable names.

• GET /books → Fetch all books
• POST /books → Add a new book
• PUT /books/:id → Update book
• DELETE /books/:id → Remove a book

👉 This backend, together with the frontend, forms the complete My Reader Journey application: a personal reading tracker built as the final full-stack Epicode scapstone project.