📰 Blog API

A RESTful API built with Express for managing blog posts, categories, and comments.This project was built to focus on authentication, CRUD operations, and relational data management.

🚀 Features

• User authentication (JWT-based login/register)
• CRUD operations for blog posts
• Categories and tags support
• Comment system (linked to blog posts & users)
• Erro handling

🛠 Tech Stack

• Node.js + Express.js
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• JWT for authentication
• Multer / Cloudinary for image uploads
• Postman for API testing

📂 Project Structure

blog-api/
│ ├── controllers/ # Request handlers
│ ├── models/ # Mongoose schemas
│ ├── config/ # for configurations
│ ├── routes/ # Express routes
│ ├── middlewares/ # Authentication
│ ├── utils/ # Helpers (e.g. Cloudinary upload)
│── .env
│── index.js
│── package.json
│── README.md

🔑 Authentication

• Register with POST /api/users/authentication/register
• Login with POST /api/users/authentication/login

📘 API Documentation

Detailed Postman docs here 👉 View Postman Documentation

🛠 Installation

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/DamiAjele/Blog-API.git
cd blog-api

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Create .env file
MONGO_URI=your_mongo_connection
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
PORT=5000

# Run server
npm run start

🔍 Usage

Example request to create a blog post:

POST /api/posts/create-post Authorization: Log in (JWT-based) Content-Type: application/json

{
  "title": "My First Blog Post",
  "content": "This is the content of the blog",
  "category": "Technology"
}

Future Improvments

• Pagination, filtering and sorting of blog posts

Error Handling

The API includes proper error handling for:

• Non-existent users, posts, categories, and comments
• Invalid users and posts IDs
• Malformed requests

Author

Damilola Ajele