JobSpace

Most people track applications in a Google Sheet, and by the fiftieth row it is a mess. Resumes live in one folder, company notes in another, and nobody can tell which stage is holding them up.

JobSpace keeps the sheet and puts the rest around it: login, a document vault, company notes and charts, all in one workspace.

• Your own columns

  Every application has the usual fields plus any column you add. No schema change, no migration.

• Document vault

  Attach resumes and cover letters. Uploads are capped at 10 MB and limited to PDFs, documents and images.

• Company notes

  The same flexible columns for the companies you are watching, not just the jobs you applied to.

• Charts of your pipeline

  Built with Chart.js from your own application data.

• Login with real sessions

  Normal users and admins use separate routes with their own guards.

The React app calls an Express API with credentials. The API reads a session cookie, checks it against sessions stored in MongoDB, runs the route guard and then talks to MongoDB through Mongoose.

1. 01React appReact Router · Axios · Chart.js
2. 02Express APISessions · route guards · uploads
3. 03MongoDBusers · applications · companies · documents · sessions

1. 01

   Cookie sessions, not JWTs

   Sessions live in MongoDB, so logging out genuinely ends the session on the server. With a JWT I would have been waiting for it to expire.

2. 02

   A schema that bends where users need it to

   Common fields are real fields. Anything a user adds goes into an open extension map, so new columns cost nothing.

3. 03

   Uploads are checked before they reach any code

   File type and size are enforced in middleware, and passwords are hashed with bcrypt.

4. 04

   Two services, deployed separately

   The front end and the API ship independently, so I can change one without touching the other.

• React 18
• Vite
• React Router
• Chart.js
• Node.js
• Express 5
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• connect-mongo
• bcrypt
• Multer

The API runs on a free hosting tier, so the first visit after a quiet spell can take a few seconds to wake up.