🗣️ Evangadi Forum - Backend API

Welcome to the Evangadi Forum backend – a RESTful API that powers a Question & Answer platform built for Evangadi community members. This backend service handles user authentication, posting questions, retrieving answers, and more.

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🌟 Features

• ✅ User Authentication
  • Sign up and login with secure password hashing (bcrypt)
  • JWT-based session authentication
• ❓ Questions API
  • Create a new question
  • Get all questions
  • Get a single question by ID
• 💬 Answers API
  • Post an answer to a question
  • Get all answers for a specific question (via query parameter)

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MySQL (with connection pooling)
• Authentication: JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• Other Tools: bcrypt, dotenv, OpenAI API (if applicable)

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📁 Project Structure

Evangadi-forum-backend/  
│  
├── controllers/  
│ ├── userController.js  
│ ├── questionController.js  
│ └── answerController.js  
│  
├── routes/  
│ ├── userRoutes.js  
│ ├── questionRoutes.js  
│ └── answerRoutes.js  
│  
├── middleware/  
│ └── authMiddleware.js  
│  
├── db/  
│ └── connection.js  
│  
├── .env  
├── app.js  
├── package.json  
└── README.md

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🚀 Getting Started

🔧 Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Dese-1216/Evangadi-Fourm.git
   cd evangadi-forum-backend

Install dependencies

npm install

🛡️ Environment Variables Create a .env file and add the following variables:

DB_USER=your_mysql_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_mysql_password
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=evangadi_forum
DB_CONNECTION_LIMIT=10

JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret_key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key_if_needed

▶️ Running the Server Start the server with:

npm start The API will be available at: http://localhost:5000 (default port unless changed)

🙌 Contributing We welcome contributions! Please fork the repository and submit a pull request for any improvements or bug fixes. Be sure to follow clean code practices.

📄 License This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Made with ❤️ by the Evangadi March 29 Batch Group 2 Water Team