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Build Your Own To-Do List CLI (Node.js)

Build a complete To-Do List back end from scratch in Node.js — authentication, user profiles, task CRUD and notifications — as a command-line program you run and test entirely in the browser playground.

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Build Your Own To-Do List CLI (Node.js)

Project Description

The To-Do List CLI is a foundational backend project. You will implement the four pillars every real application needs: authentication (register, login, logout, password reset), user management (view and edit profile), task management (full CRUD, marking tasks complete, listing completed tasks with pagination), and notifications (retrieve, mark read/unread, clear, count).Instead of an HTTP server, your Node.js progra

What you'll learn

  • Backend Development

  • Command-Line Interfaces

  • Authentication & Authorization

  • CRUD Operations

  • Data Modelling

Project tasks

01

Introduction

02

Authentication

03

User Management

04

Task Management

05

Notification

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Project Overview

1
Weeks
18
Tasks
180
Points
Difficulty
Beginner
Builders
2

Technologies

Node.jsJavaScriptJSONCLIToken Authentication

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of JavaScript — functions, arrays and objects.
  • Familiarity with reading and writing JSON.

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