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🚀 Features Added

Profile System

  • Complete Profile Dashboard: New /profile page displaying user information, statistics, and activity metrics
  • Profile API: Full CRUD operations with authentication middleware
  • Navbar Integration: Profile icon with proper authentication state management

Article Tracking System

  • Cross-User Tracking: Users can read articles from different authors with proper tracking
  • Reading Analytics: Track and display number of articles read per user
  • Optional Authentication: Non-intrusive tracking that works for both logged-in and anonymous users

Authentication & UX Improvements

  • Enhanced Token Handling: Improved JWT token management across frontend/backend
  • Date Display Fix: Existing users now show "Early 2025" instead of blank dates
  • Blog Creation Resilience: Cloudinary fallback prevents hanging when credentials aren't configured

Developer Experience

  • Development Tools: Added start-servers.bat for easy local development setup
  • Debugging Support: Comprehensive logging for article tracking functionality

🔧 Technical Details

  • Frontend: React.js with Redux state management
  • Backend: Express.js with optional authentication middleware
  • Database: MongoDB with enhanced user schema for article tracking
  • Authentication: JWT with localStorage persistence

📱 UI/UX

  • Responsive profile dashboard with statistics cards
  • Smooth authentication flow with proper state management
  • Consistent date formatting across the application

✅ Tested

  • Profile creation and data retrieval
  • Article reading tracking between different users
  • Authentication flow with token management
  • Blog creation with Cloudinary fallback

Addresses the GitHub issue requirement for user profile functionality with enhanced user experience features.

- Add complete profile page with user statistics and activity metrics
- Implement article reading tracking system across different user accounts
- Add profile API endpoints and routes with authentication
- Fix authentication flow and token handling for article tracking
- Add profile icon to navbar with proper authentication state
- Fix date display for existing users (show 'Early 2025')
- Add Cloudinary fallback for blog creation when credentials not configured
- Add server startup script for development
- Enhance blog controllers with optional authentication middleware
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This PR was made 3 days ago please check this, so that i know there are no conflicts.
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