Hello Dev Community! πŸ‘‹

It is officially Day 47 of my daily coding run toward full-stack MERN mastery! Over the past few weeks, my Express.js server was growing quickly with custom routes, JSON handling, and rendering scripts. But as any senior dev will tell you: putting all your backend logic inside a single index.js file is a fast track to technical debt.

Today, I advanced straight into Prashant Sir's (Complete Coding) curriculum to implement the golden standard of software organization: MVC (Model-View-Controller) Architecture for clean code separation!

MVC is a structural software design pattern that splits an application's concerns into three distinct decoupled layers. Here is how I broke down my monolithic file today:

1. Routes Directory (/routes)