Bloggo - Medium Clone

A full-stack Node.js application built with Next.js, and Firebase made as a clone to Medium.

Table of Contents:

1. Description
2. Prerequisites
3. Deployment
4. Environment Configuration
5. Testing

🔎 This repo was created with Nx.

📚 Description

This application was built to mimic the functionalities of the Medium blogging website but with Firebase as the api. Deployed with authentication/authorization, logging, crud features and database persistence out of the box.

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🛠️ Prerequisites

Non Docker

• Please make sure to have Node.js (16+) locally by downloading the Javascript runtime via brew, choco, or apt-get.

• Please make sure to have Firebase configured either locally or onboarded on GCP cloud by following this guide.

Docker 🐳

• Please make sure to have Docker Desktop operational to quickly compose the required dependencies. Then follow the docker procedure outlined below.

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🚀 Deployment

Manual Deployment without Docker

• Clone the repo via git clone https://github.com/msanvarov/bloggo.

• Download dependencies via npm i or yarn.

• Reconfigure Firebase with the Firebase CLI via firebase init.

• Create a .env file via the cp apps/bloggo/.env.example apps/bloggo/.env command and replace the existing environment variable placeholders with valid responses.

• Start the api in development mode by using npm run start (the ui will be exposed on http://localhost:4200).

Deploying with Docker 🐳

• Execute the following command in-app directory:

# creates and loads the docker container in detached mode with the required configuration
$ docker-compose up -d

• The following command will download dependencies and execute the web application on http://localhost:80 (deployed behind a Nginx reverse proxy).

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🔒 Environment Configuration

By default, the application comes with a config module that can read in every environment variable from the .env file.

APP_ENV - the application environment to execute as, either in development or production. Determines the type of logging options to utilize. Options: development or production.

FIREBASE_* - the firebase config details that can be fetched when creating the SDK for the app.

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✅ Testing

Docker 🐳

# Start the docker container if it's not running
$ docker start bloggo

# unit tests
$ docker exec -it bloggo npm run test

# test api against postman collection
$ docker exec -it bloggo npm run test:postman

Non-Docker

# execute test
$ npm run test

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🏗️ Progress

Branches	Status
main	✅
feat/*	🚧

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👥 Help

PRs are appreciated, I fully rely on the passion ❤️ of the OS developers.

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License

This starter API is MIT licensed.

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