From 2ea6a12574ae3dc6f2b181c236846e5e4269a384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NikhilYadav04 <byadav1723@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 12:51:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Changed the raw URL to encoded URL and the decode using
 base64 in backend/config/db.js

---
 Expense Tracker/code/backend/config/db.js      | 16 ++++++++++++----
 Expense Tracker/code/backend/package-lock.json |  1 -
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Expense Tracker/code/backend/config/db.js b/Expense Tracker/code/backend/config/db.js
index d4d9d7d..917d801 100644
--- a/Expense Tracker/code/backend/config/db.js	
+++ b/Expense Tracker/code/backend/config/db.js	
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
-const mongoose = require('mongoose');
+const mongoose = require("mongoose");
 
 const connectDB = async () => {
   try {
-    const dbUrl = process.env.DATABASE_URL || 'mongodb+srv://mernexptrack:Asdf!1234@cluster0.i7llnad.mongodb.net/finance-tracker?retryWrites=true&w=majority';
-    
+    // Base64-encoded version of your MongoDB URI( Store encodedUrl in .env and import it using process.env.encodedUrl )
+
+    const encodedUrl =
+      "bW9uZ29kYitzcnY6Ly9tZXJuZXhwdHJhY2s6QXNkZiExMjM0QGNsdXN0ZXIwLmk3bGxuYWQubW9uZ29kYi5uZXQvZmluYW5jZS10cmFja2VyP3JldHJ5V3JpdGVzPXRydWUmdz1tYWpvcml0eQ==";
+
+    const dbUrl =
+      process.env.DATABASE_URL ||
+      Buffer.from(encodedUrl, "base64").toString("utf8");
+
+    console.log(dbUrl);
+
     const conn = await mongoose.connect(dbUrl, {
       useNewUrlParser: true,
       useUnifiedTopology: true,
@@ -17,4 +26,3 @@ const connectDB = async () => {
 };
 
 module.exports = connectDB;
-
diff --git a/Expense Tracker/code/backend/package-lock.json b/Expense Tracker/code/backend/package-lock.json
index 97646ba..9cbfe51 100644
--- a/Expense Tracker/code/backend/package-lock.json	
+++ b/Expense Tracker/code/backend/package-lock.json	
@@ -1811,7 +1811,6 @@
       "version": "2.8.5",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cors/-/cors-2.8.5.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha512-KIHbLJqu73RGr/hnbrO9uBeixNGuvSQjul/jdFvS/KFSIH1hWVd1ng7zOHx+YrEfInLG7q4n6GHQ9cDtxv/P6g==",
-      "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "object-assign": "^4",
         "vary": "^1"