Blogging-api

This is a sample backend for a blogging website. It allows you to create and manage blogs and uses standard JSON for responses.

Features

User management

Create an account with first name, last name, email and password
Signin with credentials to get API key

Viewing blogs (Doesn't require API key)

View all published blogs (with pagination)
Filter blogs by author, title and tags
Sort blogs by reading time, views and publish date
Detailed view of any blog

Writing blogs (Requires API key)

Create a new blog (defaults to draft state)
View all blogs created by you
Publish a blog
Edit a blog
Delete a blog

Implementation

This project was built using Express.

Tokenization was handled using Json Web Tokens (JWTs).

Database used was MongoDB.

Testing locally

Clone this project
Create a .env file in the root directory and add these variables.
MONGODB_URL="Your local or cloud url goes here"
JWT_SECRET="Long and random string goes here"
Run npm install to install dependencies
Run npm run dev to start a development server
Run npm test to make sure all tests are passing