User Account Creation

User registration

Users can’t access the application unless they have an account and are signed in successfully. So when a user tries to sign up, what happens?

1. On sign up, we ask our users to provide the user_name and user_email. When they do this, we check against the database to see if the username or email address exists. If either of them is found, we throw an error message, notifying our users that they can’t use that username or email because another user with those details already exists.

2. If the user_name and email are unique, we’ll let the user proceed to the next step, which is password validation.

3. During the password validation process, we check to see if the password has a minimum of 8 characters.

4. After the password check is complete and the user's password passes it, the user's details are sent through the registration endpoint by triggering a POST request.

5. If the registration is successful, a success status code is returned, and if not, an error code is sent.

6. The user can now proceed to log in and access the platform. If a ...