📒 NoteBook (MERN Stack)

A full-stack Note Taking Application built with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js). Includes user authentication and full CRUD functionality for notes.

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🚀 Features

• User Registration & Login with JWT authentication
• Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) personal notes
• Protected routes & authorization
• Responsive UI using React
• Backend API using Express and MongoDB

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🧱 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
• Axios
• React Router

Backend

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB & Mongoose
• JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• bcryptjs
• dotenv
• cors

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🔧 Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Tanendra77/notebook.git
cd notebook

2. Backend Setup

cd Backend
npm install

✏️ Create a .env file in root of backend if not present and add your monogodb Connection Details

MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/Notebook
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
PORT=5000

Start the backend

npm run server

4. Frontend Setup Open another terminal:

cd notebook-frontend
npm install

Start the frontend

npm start

🌐 Folder Structure

notebook-app-mern/
├── Backend/
│   ├── models/
│   ├── routes/
│   ├── controllers/
│   ├── middleware/
│   ├── .env
│   └── server.js
├── notebook-frontend/
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── pages/
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   ├── utils/
│   │   └── App.js
├── README.md

🛠 API Endpoints

Auth
POST /api/auth/register — Register new user

POST /api/auth/login — Login user (returns JWT token)

Notes
GET /api/notes — Get all user notes (requires token)

POST /api/notes — Create a note

PUT /api/notes/:id — Update a note

DELETE /api/notes/:id — Delete a note

⚠️ All /api/notes routes require a valid Authorization: Bearer header.

📸 Screenshots

Home Page

Login Page

Register Page

Notes Page

📄 License This project is open source and free to use under the MIT License.

🙌 Author

Made with 💻 by Tanendra77