NodePost

NodePost is a light backend-end logic for a blogpost website made with Node.js and Typescript. The application provides registeration and login routes where users are added to the MongoDB database and given an authentication token. The authorized user can then make a blogpost by providing a title and content. Other authorized users have the ability to comment on a given blogpost and search for users or blogposts. The user can also add blogposts to their favourite blogposts.

Install:

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install

npm install

run

npm run devStart

functionalities:

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Registeration

Post http://localhost:8080/api/regis

A POST Requist with payload the following format will add a user to the database if successfully verified.

{ "email": "name@email.com", "password" : "password", "userName" :"userOne" }

Login

Post http://localhost:8080/api/auth

The same object must be provided in order to receive an auhtentication token.

{ "email": "name@email.com", "password" : "password", "userName" :"userOne" }

The authenticated user will receive a response with following object

{ "data": "SECRET_TOKEN", "message": "logged in successfully" }

Post a blogpost

Post http://localhost:8080/api/blogpost The authenticated user must provide a the authentication token in the x-access-header before making a post request with with following payload:

x-access-header : "SECRET_TOKEN"

{ "title": "blogpost title", "content" : "blogpost content" }

Post a comment on a blogpost

Post http://localhost:8080/api/blogpost/:blogpostId/comment

The authenticated user can post comments on a given blogpost with the following format:

{ "content" : "dummy comment content" }

Add a blogpost your favourite list

Post http://localhost:8080/api/blogpost/:blogpostId/comment The authenticated user can add a blogpost to favourites by making POST request to this endpoint.

{"content" : "blogpost content" }

Search

Find user

Search for an user witrh user ID GET http://localhost:8080/api/search/:userId

Comments by user

retrieve the comments made by the user GET http://localhost:8080/api/search/:userId/commentsByUser

Blogposts by user

retrieve the bogposts made by the user GET http://localhost:8080/api/search/:userId/postsByUser

Tech

NodePost uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• markdown-it - Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend.
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework [@tjholowaychuk]

Made by Jaggar Yussef