Server: NodeJs, ExpressJs, MongoDB, Mongoose, JWT

• Authentication & Authorization
• Post CRUD operations
• User can like/dislike posts
• Comment functionality
• User can create categories for posts
• User can block/unblock different users
• User who block another user cannot see his/her posts
• Last date a post was created
• Check if a user is active or not
• Check last date a user was active
• Changing user award based on number of posts created by the user
• User can follow and unfollow another user
• Get following and followers count
• Get total profile viewers count
• Get posts created count
• Get blocked counts
• Get all users who views someone's profile
• Update user details and password
• User can upload and update profile photo
• Admin can block/unblock a user
• User can close his/her account

• API Authentication

  • Register a new API client
  • Login

• Users

  • Get my profile
  • Get all users
  • View a user profile
  • Following a user
  • Unfollowing a user
  • Update user password
  • Update your profile
  • Block another user
  • Unblock another user
  • Admin blocking a user
  • Admin Unblocking a user
  • Delete your account
  • Upload Profile Photo

• Posts

  • Create Post
  • Get All Posts
  • Get Single Post
  • Toggle Post like
  • Toggle Post dislike
  • Update Post
  • Delete Post

• Comments

  • Create comment
  • Update post
  • Delete post

• Category

  • Create category
  • Get single category
  • Get all categories
  • Update category
  • Delete category

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/Himanshu8862/BlogAPI

Go to the project directory

  cd BlogAPI

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

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 to be sent in the Authorization header

Example:

Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>

POST /api/v1/users/register

The request body needs to be in JSON format.

{
  "firstname": "John",
  "lastname": "Doe",
  "password": "myPassword",
  "email": "[email protected]"
}

POST /api/v1/users/login

Example request body:

{
  "email": "your email"
  "password": "your password"
}

GET /api/v1/users/profile

GET /api/v1/users/

GET /api/v1/users/profile-viewers/:id

GET /api/v1/users/following/:id

GET /api/v1/users/unfollowing/:id

PUT /api/v1/users/update-password

Example request body:

{
  "password": "value"
}

PUT /api/v1/users

Example request body:

{
  "email": "value",
  "firstname": "value",
  "lastname": "value",
}

GET /api/v1/users/block/:id

GET /api/v1/users/unblock/:id

PUT /api/v1/users/admin-block/:id

PUT /api/v1/users/admin-unblock/:id

DELETE /api/v1/users/delete-account

PUT /api/v1/users/profile-photo-upload

POST /api/v1/posts

Example request body:

{
  "title": "value",
  "description": "value",
  "category": "value",
  "photo": "photo",
}

GET /api/v1/posts

GET /api/v1/posts/:id

GET /api/v1/posts/likes/:id

GET /api/v1/posts/dislikes/:id

PUT /api/v1/posts/:id

Example request body:

{
  "title": "value",
  "description": "value",
  "category": "value",
  "photo": "photo",
}

DELETE /api/v1/posts/:id

POST /api/v1/comments/:id

Example request body:

{
  "description": "value"
}

GET /api/v1/comments/:id

DELETE /api/v1/comments/:id

PUT /api/v1/comments/:id

Example request body:

{
  "description": "value"
}

POST /api/v1/categories/

Example request body:

{
  "title": "value"
}

GET /api/v1/categories/:id

GET /api/v1/categories/

PUT /api/v1/categories/:id

Example request body:

{
  "title": "value"
}

DELETE /api/v1/categories/:id