1. To-Do List App: Manage tasks with CRUD operations, learn Express.js and MongoDB for backend management.
2. Weather App: Fetch weather data using an API, practice making HTTP requests and parsing JSON responses.
3. Chat Application: Build a real-time chat app using Socket.io to understand WebSocket connections and event handling.
4. Blog Platform: Create a basic blog with user authentication, allowing posts, comments, and user profiles using Express and MongoDB.
5. Expense Tracker: Track income and expenses, and generate reports; practice data storage and retrieval with Node.js and a database.
6. Recipe Finder: Search for recipes using an external API, learn about handling API requests and displaying data dynamically.
7. Personal Portfolio: Showcase projects and skills with a static site, utilize Node.js to serve content and learn about static file serving.