The existing skeleton application only has support for a user's name, email, and password. But in MERN Social, we will allow users to add a description about themselves, as well as upload a profile photo while editing the profile after signing up, as shown in the following screenshot:
In order to implement this feature update, we need to modify both the user backend and frontend. In the following sections, we will learn how to update the user model and user update API in the backend, and then the user profile and user profile edit form views in the frontend to add a short description and a profile photo for users in MERN Social.
