Upstride Backend

Upstride Backend is a scalable backend platform for mentorship and professional networking, built with Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and MongoDB.

It powers a complete mentorship ecosystem with secure authentication, mentor discovery, personalized content feeds, session scheduling, live video call support, payments, wallet management, notifications, and media storage. The application follows a modular Clean Architecture with an event-driven design, enabling maintainable, scalable, and extensible business logic.

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Features

• User authentication and authorization
• Mentor profile and discovery
• Session scheduling and booking
• Live call session handling
• Article publishing platform
• Comments and reactions
• Content reporting and moderation
• Stripe payment integration
• Wallet and transaction management
• Session settlement and refunds
• Media uploads with AWS S3
• Background job processing
• Redis caching
• Event-driven architecture
• Worker-based asynchronous processing

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Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Express.js
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• InversifyJS
• Zod
• Socket.IO
• Redis
• Stripe
• AWS S3

Development Tools

• Docker

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Architecture

• Clean Architecture
• Repository Pattern
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Dependency Injection
• SOLID Principles

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Project Structure

upstride-api/
├── src/
│   ├── application/
│   │   ├── events/
│   │   ├── modules/
│   │   ├── ports/
│   │   └── services/
│   │
│   ├── domain/
│   │   ├── entities/
│   │   ├── events/
│   │   ├── policies/
│   │   └── repositories/
│   │
│   ├── infrastructure/
│   │   ├── cache/
│   │   ├── database/
│   │   ├── mail/
│   │   ├── notifications/
│   │   ├── queue/
│   │   │   └── workers/
│   │   └── services/
│   │
│   └── main/
│       ├── app.ts
│       ├── di/
│       └── worker.ts
│
├── docker-compose.dev.yml
├── docker-compose.yml
├── package.json
└── README.md