Blogging-API

This is an Api for a blog app

Note:

I added views to this project to make api calls alot easier for users so in a way, it's a fullstack app albeit one that still requires a few touches on the frontend since my focus was basically the backend api.

Live demo

blog.com

Navigating the live app

• The home page automacally makes an api call to the server which provides all published blogs in the database.
  • This home route is paginated and dispalys only 20 blogs at a time. To view next page, add "?page=1" to the end of the home route. you can change pages by increasing the page number on the home route.
  • On the top of the page are four links:
    • jay Blog: which takes a user to the home page("/').
    • sign up: which takes a user to the sign up page("/signup").
    • log in: which takes a user to the login page("/login").
    • jay Blog: which takes a user to the home page("/create"): This is a protected route that only authenticated users can access.
• Each blog displays the title, author, tags, number of views as well as the time taken to read the blog.
• Both autenticated and unauthenticated users can access all published blogs by a particular author by clicking "here" on that particular blog.
• Both autenticated and unauthenticated users can access a single published blog by a particular author by clicking "Get this blog" on that particular blog. This increases the number of views on that particular blog.
• Only authenticated users can create a blog.
• creating a blog with an already existing title will fail.
• All newly created blogs are automatically saved in a "draft" state unless otherwise stated by the author during creation.
• Authenticated users can access their published blogs by clicking my published blog and access their draft blogs by clicking my draft blog.
• Draft stated blogs are not displayed on the homepage but authenticated users can acces their own personal draft blogs.
• Authenticated users can update or delete their own person blogs.
• Unauthenticated users cannot update, delete or create blogs.

Extra info

• MVC pattern
• Jsonwebtoken for authentication.
• Mongodb for database