This repository contains the backend API for GomiGotchi, a gamified litter-cleanup mobile app created during UWB Hacks 2025 (theme: Save the World).

The backend provides a secure REST API and database layer for the GomiGotchi app.

• Handles user accounts, session tracking, and cleanup activity logs
• Stores and retrieves pet state data (health, happiness) linked to environmental actions
• Connects the frontend (React + Leaflet) to MongoDB for persistent storage

• Node.js + Express.js – REST API server
• MongoDB – NoSQL database for user/pet data
• Mongoose – schema modeling and database queries

• User Management: sign up, login, authentication
• Pet Data: store and retrieve pet status (hunger, health, activity)
• Cleanup Logs: track litter collection events tied to user accounts
• API Endpoints: JSON responses consumed by the React frontend

• Backend development with Express.js
• Database design and schema modeling in MongoDB
• REST API creation and integration with frontend services
• Team-based rapid prototyping in a hackathon environment

This repo contains the backend prototype only. The project was built collaboratively in a 5-person team during a 36-hour hackathon, and is not production-ready.
Backend can be found at https://github.com/O-xix/GomiGotchi_FrontEnd.