The Blog

The back-end for my full stack blog.
Built with Express/TypeORM/PostgreSQL. Frontend repo

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Features

• Authentication with JWT and cookies
• Authorized/Unauthorized routes
• Anonymous comments
• Categories
• Dates
• User roles and permissions
• User only features
  • Blogpost likes/Comment likes
  • Blogpost like history/Comment like history
  • Comment history
• Author only features
  • Blogpost CRUD operations
  • Blogpost publish/unpublish

Built With

• Node/Express
• Typescript
• TypeORM
• PostgreSQL
• Bcrypt
• Passport local strategy
• Passport JWT

Concepts / Things I learned

• SQL models
• SQL relations
• SQL joins
• SQL query methods
• JWT Authorization
• Using cookies

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