How I Finally Secured My impextech Node.js API (Without Losing My Mind to TypeScript) 🛡️
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Let's be honest: building an API that "works on my machine" is a great feeling. But moving from an API that simply returns data to one that is actually secure, type-safe, and documented? That’s a whole different beast. I am currently transitioning from medicine (I'm an MD) to backend engineering, and I’ve been building a gadget e-commerce engine called impextech. After finishing my unit tests and getting the MongoDB data layer working, I hit a wall. My authentication logic was messy. My contro