Devlog - 08

Since I was building a front end for this project and when designing the front end I didn’t had a route for getting all the businesses the logged in user is part of. So I added that route to show all the businesses on the home page of dashboard

And also I have email, password login so I needed a route to verify the user who has used email password using a verification code sent on their email. So I updated the user model and added that route too.

Next thing was I added those routes to my openApi docs and also I updated my readme.md and other mds in root docs/ folder.

One more thing is left in this project is to have separate analytics routes for separate modules like clients analytics, products analytics then main dashboard analytics.

I will make them once a get a jump on front end since I’m laking behind there

Devlog - 07

Since its a Backend API so I needed to create a api endpoints docs to showcase the project to other people as some UI helps in showcasing

I used scalar and openAPI docs for my project, It took me some time to understand what to do but I was finally able to do it

And then during deployment I made an error of putting some dependencies into dev dependencies as they were prefixed with @.

Finally was able to get my docker deployment working

Devlog -6

Added a analytics endpoint and its time to end the backend project and move on to the frontend of the project.

If issues come up designing the frontend, will have to comeback to fix it.

Till then i have deployed it with docker on railway.com

Devlog - 05

After adding tests, I decided to dockerize the project. But i was using puppeteer and it causes some issues in docker so i changed it to puppeteer-core and add install commands for chromium separately in docker file.

I made everything work after some brutal hours of debugging and fixing and learning as this is my first time working with docker

Devlog 4 - Backend Testing Marathon 🧪

Spent few days building out integration tests for my Express + TypeScript backend.

Added test coverage for:

• User registration & login
• Refresh token flow
• Forgot/reset password
• Clients
• Products (including file uploads)
• Invoices & payments
• Workspace/business authorization

Also set up:

• MongoDB Memory Server for isolated test databases
• Factories for generating users, businesses, invoices, products, etc.
• Mocks for Cloudinary, Resend, and bcrypt

Ran into a pretty annoying EPIPE error while testing multipart file uploads. After a lot of debugging, I tracked it down to file stream handling in tests. Switching upload tests to use Buffers instead of fixture files made the suite stable again.

Current stats:

• 39 tests
• 15 test files
• Full integration test suite passing ✅

Refactoring code and setup for tests

Bug Fixes, And Logic Polishing

Added Zod validation to the project