Cafe Management API

A lightweight backend for restaurant operations, focused on order flow, data persistence, and real-time updates for staff-facing experiences.

What This Project Shows

• Backend CRUD architecture for a real business workflow
• Realtime event patterns for restaurant operations
• Practical Node.js service design using mainstream tooling

Why This Stack / Tooling

• Express was chosen for a simple and readable API surface.
• MongoDB + Mongoose fit the changing structure of menu items, orders, and operational entities.
• Pusher + Socket.IO support event-driven updates for dashboards and kitchen workflows.
• dotenv + cors keep runtime configuration and client integration practical.

Stack

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB / Mongoose
• Pusher
• Socket.IO

Key Features

• Restaurant order management backend
• Realtime event hooks for operations
• Flexible API foundation for frontend clients

Getting Started

npm install
npm run start

Why It Matters For Hiring

This repository is useful for explaining how business software is built with pragmatic trade-offs: simple framework choices, flexible persistence, and real-time capabilities where they deliver operational value.