A sample responsive CMS style blog
A sample CMS-style blog site following the MVC paradigm created using Express.js, handlebars.js, Sequelize and express-session.
This project aimed at creating a CMS-style blog site where users can publish their blog posts and comment on other’s posts as well. The app follows MVC paradigm in it's architectural structure, using Handlebars.js as the templating language, Sequelize as the ORM and express-session npm pakage for authentication.
This app makes use of the following technologies:
1 express-handlebars
2 MySQL2
3 Sequelize
4 dotenv
5 bcrypt
6 espress-session
7 connect-session-sequelize
8 Bootstrap
The app also makes use of CSS3 Hover effects by Ian Lunn provided for free use under the MIT licence.
Alternatively, the repo can be downloaded and run locally. All the npm packages are provided in the package.json file and running npm i from the command line will install them all. After that just run npm start to start app.
When a user navigates to the blog, they will be presented with a homepage with all blogposts along with each post's author and date of creation. No other page will be able to be accessed without being logged in and clicking on any of the blogposts will automatically direct the user to the login/signup page. The login page can also be reached from the link in the navbar. Once the user is logged in, they will be able to see a link to their dashboard + a logout button in the navbar. Now the user can click on any of the blogposts from the home page and they will be taken to the blog post page which will display the entire post, all comments on that blog as well as a field to leave a new comment. If the user navigates to their dashboard, they will see al the blogposts they have written, an option to edit or delete each of the posts as well as the option to add a new blogpost. If new blogpost is added, it will be displayed on the user's dashboard. If the user is inactive for more then 1 minute they will automatically be logged out of the website and need to log in again to access it.
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Copyright (c) [2021] [Nida Ghuman]
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The repo for this project can be found here: https://github.com/nidaqg/CMS-blog-sample
Heroku link for ddeployed project can be found at: https://sample-blog-cms.herokuapp.com/
For any questions or to report issues, email me at: nidaqg@gmail.com