Blog API

A RESTful API for a blogging platform built with Node.js, MongoDB, and Passport.js. It supports user authentication, blog creation, management, and discovery.

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Features

1. User Authentication

• Sign up with first_name, last_name, email, and password
• Sign in with email and password
• Authentication handled with Passport + JWT (token expires in 1 hour)

2. Blog Access

• All users (logged in or not) can:
  • View a paginated list of published blogs
  • View individual published blog posts (read count increases automatically)
• Blogs are searchable by author, title, and tags
• Blogs are sortable by read_count, reading_time, or timestamp

3. Blog Management

• Blogs can be in either draft or published state
• Authenticated users can:
  • Create blogs (default state: draft)
  • Publish/unpublish their blogs
  • Edit or delete their blogs
  • View their blogs (filterable by state)

4. Blog Schema

Each blog includes:

• title, description, tags, author, timestamp
• state, read_count, reading_time, body

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• MongoDB Atlas (or local MongoDB)

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/El-Gibbor/Blogging_API.git

# Navigate into the project folder
cd Blogging_API

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the server
node index.js

API Base Url:

https://api-blog-m07l.onrender.com