⚙ Server Core - SAPTHAGIRI NPS University Portal

This server acts as the primary data processing, storage, AI integration, and core infrastructure interface behind the SAPTHAGIRI NPS University Portal backend.

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🏗️ Technology Stack

Our robust backend relies on industry-standard technologies with specialized AI augmentation integrations.

• Environment: Node.js & Express.js wrapper (express, express-async-handler)
• Database: MongoDB utilizing mongoose modeling.
• Security & Validation:
  • bcryptjs - For hashing and safeguarding user credentials
  • jsonwebtoken - For JSON-based stateless secured authentication
  • express-rate-limit - DDoS protection and request throttling
  • cors - Configuring cross-origin setups perfectly
• Integrations:
  • nodemailer - Built internally to interact with SMTP setups for verification, notifications, and alerts.
  • openai / @google/generative-ai - AI features to boost educational insights, and automations within the user lifecycle interactions.

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📋 Required Environments

Store the following config details as a .env in the root /snpsubknd/ directory:

PORT=...               # Preferred Dev Server Port
MONGODB_URI=...        # Your target remote/local MongoDB driver link
JWT_SECRET=...         # Strong cryptographic string
EMAIL_USER=...         # Target system SMTP configuration email target
EMAIL_PASS=...         # Standard SMTP app password
OPENAI_API_KEY=...
GOOGLE_API_KEY=...

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🏃 Running the Backend Locally

Development environments include nodemon out of the box so updates mirror seamlessly across code edits to your running server dynamically:

# Standard dependency initialization
npm install

# Start development daemon (Listens up for direct edits)
npm run dev

# Starts statically
npm start