CRUX STATION

A full-Stack multi-user Blogging platform to share blogs with the community.

🛠 Tech Stack - (MERN)

• 💻 JavaScript | ES6
• 🌐 NextJS | Node.js | Express.js | MongoDB
• 🔧 Git | Markdown
• 📦 Material-UI, bcrypt.js, jsonwebtoken, mongoose, redux, next-redux-wrapper, react-router-dom, nprogress, validator, axios, Formik, redux-thunk, yup, redux-persist, React-Quill, react-render-html, slugify, express-validator, formidable, shortid, string-strip-html, lodash, morgan, moment.js .

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DEMO

Open the LIVE DEMO to try Crux Station yourself.

Disclaimer: There could be delay in responses due as the app is hosted on shared community servers (non-production grade servers).

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Features

• Authentication.
  • User must signup and signin to verify their identity to use the application.
  • Bcryptjs and JWT used for authentication.
  • Role management is implemented.
  • Route guarding is implemented for private routes.
  • Maximum allowed login per user is implemented.
• SEO Friendly
  • Content is rendered server side on first load to help web crawler bots index site.
  • NextJS server side rendering utilized.
• Categories
  • Blogs are associated with categories.
  • List of all categories on home page to for easier access.
  • List all blogs related to single category.
  • Admin users can perform CRUD on categories.
• Tags
  • Blogs are associated with tags.
  • List all blogs related to single tag.
  • Admin users can perform CRUD on tags.
• Blogs
  • Non authenticated can view the blogs.
  • Authenticated users can perform CRUD on blogs written by them.
  • Each blog can is indexed to be searched easily.
  • Rich content text editor is provided for creating new blog.
  • Blogs list sorted to show latest posts first.
• User Profile
  • Users have access to moderate their public profile
• Blogs Search
  • search bar is available in all pages.
  • search key words are searched against blog body and titles to narrow to relevant results
• Commenting
  • Disqus commenting system implemented.
  • Autheticated users can comment on the individual blogs.
• Likes
  • Autheticated users can like and unlike posts.
  • Non-Authenticated users will be greeted with dialog to signup.
• Content Moderation
  • Privelaged admin users can moderate the content quality of blogs over time.
  • Admin users can take down blogs based on voilation of rules.
• Dark Mode
  • Dark Mode implemented using the materialUI theming.
• Infinite Scroll
  • Infinite scroll implemented on blogs list.

Contributors

         
M Sanjay Sharma

License