Readora - Server Side

📌 Project Purpose

This is the backend API for Readora, a library management system. It manages books, user borrowing history, and provides secure endpoints to support client-side operations like borrowing, returning, and retrieving book data.

📚 Live Site: https://redora.vercel.app/

🔑 Key Features

• 📚 Books API (CRUD for admin, Read for users)
• 🧑‍💼 Borrowed books tracking by user email
• 🔐🔐 JWT-based route protection
• 📦 MongoDB database integration
• 🔁 RESTful API structure with Express.js

📡 API Endpoints

• GET /books: Get all books
• GET /books/:id: Get details for a specific book
• POST /borrow: Add a borrowed book
• GET /borrowed/:email: Get books borrowed by a specific user
• DELETE /borrowed/:id: Return (delete) a borrowed book

🧰 Technologies & Packages Used

• Express.js
• MongoDB
• CORS
• dotenv
• jsonwebtoken (JWT)
• nodemon

⚙️ Installation & Running

npm install
npm start