sravyap975/mern3 ? reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a simple MERN practice project in this repo, using the week1 to week8 folders as a guided progression. I want it to start with the basic setup, then add a simple app where users can create, view, edit, and delete items, with a clean frontend and a small Node and Express backend connected to MongoDB.

Please make each week folder feel like a milestone I could learn from, so the project builds up step by step instead of everything being dumped in at once. Keep the UI simple and easy to use, and make sure the app works end to end.

If you need to check anything current, look up the latest docs online. Also, please add any missing setup notes or scripts so I can run it locally without guessing.