Blood Aid Server

Purpose

The backend of Blood Aid serves as the backbone of the platform, enabling seamless communication between donors and recipients. It provides robust authentication, role-based access control, and efficient management of donation requests, users, and content through RESTful APIs.

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Key Features

1. User Role Management:
   • Admin:
     • Manages users, donation requests, blogs, and funding data.
   • Volunteer:
     • Handles donation requests and updates their status.
   • Donor:
     • Creates and responds to donation requests and manages their profile.
2. Donation Requests:
   • Enables users to create, update, delete, and view donation requests.
   • Supports pagination and filtering for better data management.
3. Funding Management:
   • Secure integration with Stripe to allow donations.
   • Tracks total funds raised and logs each funding transaction.
4. Content Management:
   • Admins can create, publish, and unpublish blogs.
   • Blogs can be viewed publicly by users.
5. Role-Based Middleware:
   • Implements secure and restricted access for specific routes based on user roles.
6. Data Validation:
   • Ensures secure and consistent storage with input validation.
7. Search Functionality:
   • Provides APIs for searching donors by blood group, district, and upazila.

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Technologies Used

• Node.js: Runtime environment for building scalable server-side applications.
• Express.js: Web framework for handling RESTful APIs.
• MongoDB: NoSQL database for efficient data storage and querying.
• Mongoose: Object Data Modeling (ODM) for MongoDB.
• Stripe: Payment processing for funding management.
• bcrypt: Password hashing for secure user authentication.
• JsonWebToken (JWT): Token-based authentication for secure API access.
• Dotenv: Manages environment variables for configuration.
• Cors: Enables secure cross-origin resource sharing.

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Installation Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository_url>
   cd blood-aid-server