I spent an embarrassingly long time seeing this term everywhere and not even knowing what it stood for 😭😂

🔁 CRUD: The Operations Your API Supports

CRUD stands for:

These are the basic operations you implement on your data, and your API exposes routes that handle these.


🧠 Models/Schemas: The Structure of Your Data

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  username: String,
  email: String,
  password: String
});

const User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);

🌐 Server: Where Your App Lives