attendance-system-nodejs

attendance system nodejs-mongodb

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

$ yarn 
$ yarn start

Start mongo

• If on your computer

$ mongod 
$ mongo

alternative use mongodb atlas in server.js

mongoose
  .connect("mongodb+srv://myusername:[email protected]/test?retryWrites=true&w=majority", { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true })
  .then(() => {
    console.log("Connected to the Database successfully");
  });

Attendance API w/ Express.js and MongoDB

A backend application using Node.js with the Express framework, that implements a simple CRUD with the MongoDB.

• Build an attendance application where a student and teacher can log in and sign up. NOTE: store password hashed
• Where teachers can take attendance of the students in their class.
• Students can only see the current status of their attendance.

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Stack

Lib	Version
express	^4.17.1
accesscontrol	^2.2.1
bcrypt	^3.0.6
jsonwebtoken	^8.5.1

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Running

After clone

$ cd attendance-system-nodejs
$ npm install

Starting the application

$ npm start

or

$ node index.js

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Routes

• Sign up role-based [Admin/Teacher/Student] if role is[Teacher or student] a subject is required

method: "POST"
url: "/signup"
body: {
    "email": <String>,
    "password": <String>,
    "role": <String>, 
    "subject":<String> // if role is teacher or student
}

• Sign in

method: "POST"
url: "/login"
body: {
    "email": <String>,
    "password": <String>
}

• Get a single user

method: GET
url: "/user/:userId"

• Get all users [Log in required]

method: GET
url: "/users"

• Get users whose role is student [Log in required]

method: GET
url: "/students"

• Get students with the subject [Log in required]

method: GET
url: "/students/:subjectParam

• Get students with matching subjects,
• a new attendance entry in attendance table
• will be created with all the data with current date

method: GET
url: "/getClasses/:subjectParam"

• student checking his attandance

method: GET
url: "/stuAtt

*Teacher login required

• start taking attendance only for those students
• whose email and subject were passed
• an array of object that contains the student email and subject *these students will be set as present

method: "POST"
url: "/attendance"
body: {
    [
      {email: "[email protected]", subject: "chem"},
      {email: "[email protected]", subject: "chem"},]
}

• Edit a user profile

method: "PUT"
url: "/user/:userId"
body: {
    any parameter can be updated
}


* Delete a user
```sh
method: "DELETE"
url: "/user/:userId"