🔐 Authentication & Image Upload API

A backend REST API built with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and JWT that provides secure user authentication, role-based authorization, password management, and image upload functionality using Multer and Cloudinary.

🚀 Features

• User Registration
• User Login
• JWT-based Authentication
• Password Hashing using bcrypt
• Change Password
• Role-Based Authorization
• Admin Middleware
• Image Upload
• Image Validation
• Image Size Limitation
• Cloudinary Image Storage
• MongoDB Image Metadata Storage
• Image Pagination
• Image Sorting
• RESTful API Structure

🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• JWT
• bcryptjs

Image Upload

• Multer
• Cloudinary

Development

• Nodemon
• dotenv

📁 Project Structure

Authendication/
│
├── config/
│   └── cloudinary.js
│
├── controllers/
│   ├── auth-controller.js
│   └── image-controllers.js
│
├── database/
│   └── db.js
│
├── helpers/
│   └── cloudinary-helper.js
│
├── middleware/
│   ├── auth-middleware.js
│   ├── admin-middleware.js
│   └── upload-middleware.js
│
├── models/
│   ├── User.js
│   └── Image.js
│
├── routes/
│   ├── auth-routes.js
│   ├── home-routes.js
│   ├── admin-routes.js
│   └── image-routes.js
│
├── uploads/
│
├── .env
├── .gitignore
├── package.json
└── server.js