Overview
Konekta Backend is the server-side foundation of the Konekta Social platform. I built it using a hands-on, iterative approach—experimenting, breaking things, fixing them, and learning backend engineering concepts through real practice. Throughout the process, I used AI as a learning partner to understand backend patterns, improve my prompting skills, and explore how production-grade APIs are designed. This project taught me how backend and frontend engineers collaborate through schemas, contracts, and predictable error structures. I learned how to design Prisma schemas, validate data with Zod, structure Fastify routes, and build a clean API that is easy for frontend developers to consume. The experience gave me a strong understanding of how backend logic works, why certain patterns exist, and how to design scalable, maintainable APIs. I also gained practical experience with deployment environments such as Railway, Render, and Vercel, learning how dev and prod differ in terms of cookies, CORS, headers, cold starts, and request lifecycles. These lessons helped me build a backend that behaves more like a real business-grade system rather than a simple demo.