ש SuperSmart – Backend

SuperSmart is the server-side application of a smart grocery shopping comparison platform. It was built with Node.js + Express, uses MongoDB as the main database, and provides RESTful APIs with full documentation through Swagger.

🚀 Technologies

*Node.js + Express – backend framework *MongoDB + Mongoose – database and ORM *JWT (jsonwebtoken) – authentication & authorization *Google Auth Library – Google login integration *Bcrypt – password hashing *Swagger (swagger-ui-express + swagger-jsdoc) – API documentation *Dotenv – environment configuration *CORS – cross-origin support *Nodemon – development hot-reload

✨ Main Features

User Authentication & Authorization *Login with Google or JWT *Password encryption with Bcrypt

Shopping Cart APIs *Create, update, and manage shopping carts *Share carts with other users

Price Tracking APIs *Historical price data for products *Real-time price drop notifications

*WebSockets Integration for real-time communication *Swagger API Docs available at /api-docs

📂 Project Structure /src /controllers -> Business logic for each feature /models -> Mongoose schemas & data models /routes -> Express routes for APIs /services -> Helper services (auth, price analysis, etc.) /middlewares -> Authentication, validation, error handling /config -> Environment variables, DB connection

⚙️ Installation & Running Locally

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/noagedo/SuperSmart-server.git

cd supersmart-backend

Install dependencies

npm install

Run with nodemon - local

npm run dev

📦 Main Dependencies Production *express *mongoose *dotenv *cors *swagger-ui-express *swagger-jsdoc *bcrypt *jsonwebtoken *google-auth-library *Development *nodemon *@types/node *@types/dotenv *@types/mongoose *@types/swagger-ui-express *@types/cors *@types/swagger-jsdoc *@types/bcrypt *@types/jsonwebtoken *@types/google-auth-library *@types/validator