🧠 AI-Verse API

AI-Verse API is a Node.js + Express server that connects to a MongoDB database to provide a searchable list of AI tools by name and tags. Deployed serverlessly on Vercel.

🔗 Live API Endpoint

https://ai-verse-api.vercel.app/search

📦 Features

• 🔍 Full-text search on AI tools
  • Matches tools by name or tags
  • Case-insensitive partial search
• 🌐 Live & serverless with Vercel
• 🗃️ MongoDB (Atlas) as database

🔧 Tech Stack

• Node.js + Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• Vercel for deployment
• dotenv for managing secrets

📁 Project Structure

.
├── api
│   └── index.js           # Entry point for Vercel
├── config
│   └── db.js              # MongoDB connection
├── models
│   └── ai_tools.js        # Mongoose schema
├── routes
│   └── search.js          # POST /search route
├── server.js              # Express app setup
├── .env                   # MongoDB credentials
├── vercel.json            # Vercel config

🚀 How to Use

🔸 POST /search

URL: https://ai-verse-api.vercel.app/search
Method: POST
Headers:

Content-Type: application/json

Body:

{
  "query": "music"
}

Returns:

[
  {
    "_id": "...",
    "name": "DeepBeat",
    "tags": ["music", "lyrics", ...],
    ...
  },
  ...
]

🛠️ Local Development

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/your-username/ai-verse-api.git
cd ai-verse-api

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Create .env file
echo "MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string" > .env

# Run locally
npm start

📄 Vercel Deployment

Your vercel.json should look like this:

{
  "version": 2,
  "builds": [
    {
      "src": "api/index.js",
      "use": "@vercel/node"
    }
  ],
  "routes": [
    {
      "src": "/(.*)",
      "dest": "api/index.js"
    }
  ]
}