🔐 Auth App — MERN Authentication System

🚧 Project Status: UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT 🧩 Backend Completed | Frontend (React) In Progress

A secure and scalable Authentication System built using the MERN stack, featuring registration, login, password reset, and email verification. This repository currently contains the completed backend, while the frontend is actively being developed.

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🔄 Development Roadmap

Phase	Status	Description
Backend API	✅ Done	Auth logic with JWT, email, and bcrypt
Frontend Setup	✅ Done	React + Axios + Router + Toastify
Integration	✅ Done	Connect frontend with backend APIs
Role-Based Access	✅ Done	Admin/User control
OAuth Login	🔜 Planned	Google & GitHub authentication
2FA Security	🔜 Planned	Two-Factor Authentication

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⚡ Backend Features (Completed)

• 🧾 User Registration
• 🔑 Login & Logout
• 🛡️ JWT Authentication
• 📧 Email Verification (via Nodemailer)
• 🔁 Password Reset via Email
• 🔒 Encrypted Passwords (bcryptjs)

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🎨 Frontend (In Progress)

• ⚙️ Built with React.js
• 📡 API Calls handled by Axios
• 🧭 Navigation via React Router DOM
• 🔔 Notifications with React-Toastify
• 🔐 Secure cookie-based JWT Auth Integration (in progress)

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🧰 Tech Stack

Layer	Libraries / Frameworks
Backend	Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Mongoose
Auth & Security	JWT, bcryptjs, cookie-parser, cors
Email Service	Nodemailer
Configuration	dotenv
Dev Tools	nodemon
Frontend (In Progress)	React.js, Axios, React Router DOM, React-Toastify

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⚙️ Setup Guide

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Sumitr995/Auth-Service-App.git
   cd auth-app

2. Install dependencies

   npm install

3. Setup environment variables

   • Copy .env.example → .env
   • Add your private credentials (Note: .env is ignored by Git for security reasons)

   Example:

   PORT=5000
   MONGO_URI=your_mongo_connection_string
   JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key
   EMAIL_USER=your_email@example.com
   EMAIL_PASS=your_email_password
   CLIENT_URL=http://localhost:3000

4. Run the backend server

   npm run server

   or

   nodemon server.js

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🧩 Folder Structure

auth-app/
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├── controllers/     # Route logic & handling
├── models/          # Mongoose schemas
├── routes/          # Express API routes
├── middleware/      # Auth & error middleware
├── utils/           # Email, JWT helper functions
├── .env.example     # Example env file (safe)
├── server.js        # Main server entry point
└── package.json

📜 License

Licensed under the MIT License — you’re free to use, modify, or extend this project.

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Status: 🚧 Under Development (Frontend in Progress)

Stack: MERN

Author: Sumit Rathod