Overview of the skeleton application

The skeleton application will encapsulate rudimentary features and a workflow that's repeated for most MERN applications. We will build the skeleton as a basic but fully functioning MERN web application with user create, read, update, delete (CRUD), and authentication-authorization (auth) capabilities; this will also demonstrate how to develop, organize, and run code for general web applications built using this stack. The aim is to keep the skeleton as simple as possible so that it is easy to extend and can be used as a base application for developing different MERN applications.

Feature breakdown

In the skeleton application, we will add the following use cases with user CRUD and...