Build a Blog API that can be used to manage posts and comments as well as go through the registration and logging user process using a JWT token

Server: Node, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, JWT

• ✅ Authentication using JSON Web tokens (JWT) & Authorization
• ✅ Post CRUD operations
• ✅ Category CRUD operations
• ✅ Comment functionality
• ✅ Profile photo uploaded
• ✅ Update password
• ✅ System blocking user if inactive for 30 days
• ✅ Admin can block a user
• ✅ A user can block different users
• ✅ A user who block another user cannot see his/her posts
• ✅ Check if a user is active or not
• ✅ Check last date a user was active
• ✅ Changing user award base on number of posts created by the user
• ✅ A user can follow and unfollow another user
• ✅ Get all users who views someone's profile
• ✅ Admin can unblock a blocked user
• ✅ A user can close his/her account

• Authentication

  • Sign Up
  • Login

• Logged Users

  • Update your profile
  • Update your password
  • Delete your account
  • Get my profile
  • Get all users
  • Upload Profile Photo
  • View a user profile Count
  • Following a user
  • UnFollowing-a-user
  • Block another user
  • Unblock another user

• Admin

  • Admin create a user
  • Admin delete a user
  • Admin blocking a user
  • Admin Unblocking a user

• Posts

  • Create Post
  • Update Post
  • Get All Posts
  • Get Single Post
  • Delete Post

• Comments

  • Create comment
  • Update comment
  • Delete comment
  • Get All comments
  • Get Single comment

• Categories

  • Create category
  • Update category
  • Delete category
  • Get All category
  • Get Single category

Clone the project

  git clone https://link-to-project

Go to the project directory

  cd my-project

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  npm run server

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

MONGODB_URL , JWT_SECRET , CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME , CLOUDINARY_API_KEY , CLOUDINARY_API_KEY , CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET_KEY

Some endpoints may require authentication for example. To create a create/delete/update post, you need to register your API client and obtain an access token.

The endpoints that require authentication expect a bearer token sent in the Authorization header.

Example:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR TOKEN