What is node.js-mini-project?

This project is a Movie App API, a RESTful backend built with Node.js and Express for managing a list of Indian and international movies. It supports the full set of create, read, update, and delete operations, along with role based access control, filtering movies by query parameters, and logging every request. It was built as a learning exercise, day six of a backend development course. After running npm install and npm run dev, the server starts on localhost port 3000. Each movie has a title, genre, language, rating, release year, duration, and whether it is available on a streaming service. Anyone can list all movies or fetch one by ID, and results can be filtered by genre, language, rating, release year, or streaming availability, with multiple filters combining together. A search parameter matches on title and returns a single result, taking priority over any other filters in the same request. Write operations, meaning adding, updating, or deleting a movie, require a role header set to admin, checked as an exact match, and the API returns a forbidden error if that header is missing or wrong. A PATCH request merges new fields onto an existing movie, while a PUT request fully replaces it, so any field left out of a PUT is actually removed, matching how a true replacement should behave. The dataset ships preloaded with fifty movies across seven languages and several genres. The README also documents a handful of debugging lessons the author ran into while building this, such as comparing objects by reference instead of contents, an arrow function silently returning undefined because it was missing a return statement, and reassigning a constant that later needed to change, each paired with the fix that was applied. The full README is longer than what was shown.