aslanhudajev/express-blog-api

Express Blog API

This is a part of an assignment from The Odin Project (top). The assignment was to build a backend API with two different front-ends, one for the end-user (blog reader) and one for the admin (the blog writer).

This specific repository is for the backend API. Here are the repositories for the two front ends:

• End User Front-end
• Administrator Front-end

Built with

• Express JS
• MongoDB (Mongoose)
• Passport (passport-jwt)
• JWT
• Bcrypt
• Express validator

Features

A server that serves a RESTful API with two different main route paths: /blog (unprotected path for end user front-end) and /dashboard (protected path for administrator front-end).

This API features the following functions for the two main paths:

/blog

• Path to get all published posts
  • GET /api/blog/posts
• Path to get one specific post
  • GET /api/blog/post/:postId

/dashboard

• Path to sign in (unprotected)
  • POST /api/dashboard/signin
• path to sign out (unprotected)
  • POST /api/dashboard/signout
• Path to get all published and draft posts
  • GET /api/dashboard/posts
• Path to get one specific post
  • GET /api/dashboard/post/:postId
• Path to create new post
  • POST /api/dashboard/new-post
• Path to edit specific post
  • POST /api/dashboard/edit/:postId
• Path to change password
  • POST /api/dashboard/edit/password
• Path to delete specific post
  • POST /api/dashboard/delete/:postId

Models

classDiagram
    User --> Post
    class Post{
        id objectId
        posted date
        edited date
        title string
        descritpion string
        content string
        user objectId
    }
    class User{
        id objectId
        username string
        password hash
    }

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