This backend API is built using a robust stack to ensure efficiency, scalability, and ease of development. Here's a breakdown of the stack components:

• Framework: Express - A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
• Database:
  • Primary: MongoDB - A NoSQL database known for its high performance, high availability, and easy scalability.
  • Sessions: Redis - An in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker, ideal for managing sessions.
• ODM: Mongoose - An elegant MongoDB object modeling for Node.js, providing a schema-based solution to model data.
• Validation: Zod - A TypeScript-first schema declaration and validation library that ensures your data is always in the expected format.
• Logging: Morgan - HTTP request logger middleware for Node.js, useful for tracking requests and debugging.
• Runtime: NodeJS - A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, enabling server-side scripting and development.

To facilitate development, the following tools are used:

• Builder: ESBuild - An extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript bundler.
• Formatting: Prettier - An opinionated code formatter that enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it.
• Type-Checking: TSC - TypeScript Compiler, used to ensure type safety and catch errors early in the development process.
• Package Manager: pnpm - A fast, disk space-efficient package manager that saves every installed package in a global store.

To install the required dependencies for this project, use the following command:

pnpm install

This command will install all the necessary packages as specified in the package.json file.

To start the server, use the following command:

pnpm start # or pnpm start:prod for start the production server

To build the server, you can use the following command:

pnpm build

For a minified output suitable for production environments, use:

pnpm build:prod