Blogsway

Technologies used:

Front-end: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap(CSS-framework), EJS templating

Back-end: NodeJS, ExpressJS(NodeJS framework)

Database:MongoDB, mongoose(JS library for MongoDB)

Features

Create Account(Register and Login).

Usage of Bcrypt Hashing to store passwords as encrypted hashes instead of plain text

Create, edit and delete a blogpost

Read blogposts published by other usernames

Toggle your post as either private or public

Database Schema:

blogSchema={
             title
             content
             visibility
}
userSchema={
            username
            password
            [blogSchema]
}

Endpoints:

Endpoints	Description	Acceptable values	Method
/	homepage		GET
/register	add a new user to db		POST
/login	check for existing user to login		POST
/:username	view blogs posted publicly by a username	username	GET
/:userId/blogs	view all the users from db	userId	GET
/:userId/myblogs	view all the blogs posted by the loggedin user	userId	GET
/:userId/compose	create a blog	userId,blogId	POST
/:userId/:blogId/edit	edit a blog by id	userId,blogId	POST
/:userId/:blogId/del	delete a blog by id	userId,blogId	POST
/:userId/:blogId/visibility/:visibility	toggle a private blog to public and vice-versa	userId,blogId,visibility	POST

**userId corresponds to the loggedin user

Run locally:

git clone [email protected]:thedumbsloth/blogsway.git

cd blogsway/

npm i

node app.js

Alternatively running npx nodemon instead of node app.js will automatically restart the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.

open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser