Course Selling Platform 🎓💻

A full-stack course selling platform built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and JWT authentication. Admins can create and manage courses, while users can sign up, log in, and purchase courses securely.

Features 🚀

✅ User Authentication – Secure signup & login with password hashing (bcrypt) and JWT authentication.
✅ Admin Dashboard – Admins can create, update, and manage courses.
✅ Course Purchasing – Users can browse and buy courses.
✅ MongoDB Database – Data persistence with Mongoose.
✅ Middleware & Validation – Secure API with authentication middleware and data validation using Zod.

Tech Stack 🛠

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB (Mongoose ODM)
• Authentication: JWT, bcrypt
• Validation: Zod
• Hosting: (Add if deployed, e.g., Vercel, Render, or Railway)

Setup Instructions 🏗

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/course-selling-app.git
   cd course-selling-app

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Create a .env file and add:

   MONGO_URL=<your_mongo_connection_string>
   JWT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<your_admin_jwt_secret>
   JWT_USER_PASSWORD=<your_user_jwt_secret>
   PORT=3000
   

4. Start the server:

   npm start

Contributing 🤝

Feel free to fork, open issues, and submit PRs!

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