🧾 Recipe Book Server

This is the backend server for the Recipe Book App, built using Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.

🔗 Live Server

🚀 Hosted on: https://cecipe-server-site.vercel.app/
(Note: Replace with your actual deployed server URL)

✅ Features

• 🔐 User authentication data storage
• 🧾 Recipe CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• 💖 Like functionality for recipes
• 🌟 Fetch Top 6 Recipes by likes
• 🔍 My Recipes filtering by user email
• 🛡 Protected routes handled in client side

🧑‍🍳 API Endpoints

📦 Recipes

Method	Route	Description
GET	/recipes	Get all recipes
GET	/recipes/:id	Get a specific recipe by ID
POST	/recipes	Add a new recipe
PUT	/update-likes/:id	Update like count of a recipe
GET	/topRecipes	Get top 6 recipes sorted by likes
PUT	/updateRecipe	Update a recipe (full replace)
DELETE	/deleteRecipe/:id	Delete a recipe by ID

👤 Users

Method	Route	Description
GET	/users	Get all users
POST	/users	Add a new user

🍽 My Recipes

Method	Route	Description
GET	/myRecipes	Get recipes added by logged-in user

📁 Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB Atlas
• Environment: dotenv for secure keys

🔐 Environment Variables

Ensure to create a .env file with the following: