Backend Authentication Feature Implementation and Dependency Updates

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Implement backend features and dependencies:

• Add cookie class for easier cookie creation
• Implement login throttling using rate limiter middleware
• Add endpoint to fetch user statistics
• Organize user and message into separate modules
• Add User Message controller and services
• Configure auth service to send verification mail
• Add email utility service
• Implement user logout and isLoggedIn middleware
• Implement JWT token handling for user authentication
• Add JWT token generation method to user model
• Improve email and username handling in registration
• Add authentication module
• Update config.ts and package.json file
• Add error middleware

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• chore(backend-deps): update package.json file

• add zod

• add jsonwebtoken

• add cookie-parser

• add http-status-codes

• add uuid

• feat(backend): add error middleware

• chore(backend): update config.ts

• add utils for data connection

• feat(backend): add authentication module

• add auth controller, service, middleware and validator file

• create POST - /api/auth/register route handler

• refactor: improve email and username handling in registration

• transform email and username inputs to lowercase for consistency

• update auth.validator.ts to transform email and username inputs to lowercase before validation

• feat: add JWT token generation method to user model

• implement a new method createToken() in the user model to generate JWT tokens

• update the configuration file to include JWT secret and expiration duration

• feat(backend): implement JWT token handling for user authentication

• add cookie-parser middleware to parse cookies in the request.

• create a utility function to verify JWT tokens.

• update the auth controller to handle user login and issue JWT tokens upon successful authentication.

• add middleware to validate login credentials and check if the user is already logged in.

• feat(backend): implement user logout and isLoggedIn middleware

• add logout functionality to clear the authentication cookie

• implement middleware to check if the user is logged in

• modify the AuthUser type to include the user id

• chore(backend-deps): add nodemailer package

• feat(backend): add email utility service

• add email verification model

• add email-related service file

• update config utility file

• add email utility template generator

• feat(backend): configure auth service to send verification mail

• feat(backend): add User Message controller and services

• add a new controller and services for handling user messages

• add routes for checking if a username exists, creating messages, fetching messages

• implemented corresponding services to handle message creation and fetching based on pagination

• introduced necessary validation and error handling

• refactor(backend): organize user and message into separate modules

• feat: add endpoint to fetch user statistics

• added a new endpoint in the UserController to fetch statistics for the current authenticated user

• The endpoint, GET /me/stats, retrieves data such as the total count of messages, count of archived messages, and the most recent messages

• implemented corresponding service method userStats in the UserService to handle the logic for fetching user statistics

• also included error handling to ensure the validity of the user ID and handle cases where the user is not found

• fix: fix fetching empty messages

• avoid returning archived messages

• fix parsing "req.query" instead of "req.body" in create function

• update pagination schema This commit fix an issue regard an invalid find operation using "ownerID" instead of "owner: ownerID" as filter parameter

• chore(deps): add express-rate-limit package

• feat(backend): login throttling using rate limiter middleware

• implemented login throttling by applying the rate limiter middleware to the login route in the AuthController

• this feature helps prevent brute-force-attack

• refactor: add cookie class for easily creating cookies

• feat(api): set secure flag for auth cookie in production environment