PersonalBlog API

The PersonalBlog API serves as the backend for the stylish React blog template available at myblog. This template was originally cloned from tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog by timlrx. While the original template utilized MDX parsing, this version has been adapted to function as an API, providing support for various features necessary for a personal blog.

Features

This API provides several common endpoints and functionalities that support the myblog template:

Token-Based Authorization: Secure your API with token-based authorization using user secrets.
View Summary Posts: Retrieve summaries of blog posts.
View Posts by Tag: Filter blog posts by tags.
Get All Tags: Fetch a list of all available tags.
Create Post: Add new blog posts.
Update and Delete Post: Edit or remove existing blog posts

Getting Started

Step 1: Create a MongoDB Atlas Database

To get started, you'll need to set up a MongoDB Atlas database. Follow these steps:

Visit MongoDB Atlas and sign up for an account if you don't already have one.
Create a new database and collection within MongoDB Atlas. You can take advantage of the free forever tier, which includes 512MB of storage.
Generate a connection string for your MongoDB Atlas database. You'll need this connection string to establish a connection between your API and the database.

Step 2: Configure Secrets

In the project, you'll need to configure various secrets, including user secrets used for token-based authorization. Here's what you need to do:

Ensure you've set up the JwtSetting:UserSecret in your configuration. This secret is used to generate authorization tokens.

 "MongoSettings": {
    "MongoConnection": "See user Secret",
    "Password": "See user Secret",
    "DatabaseName": "see user secret",
    "PostCollectionName": "see user secret"
  },
  "JwtSettings": {
    "SecretKey": "See user Secret",
    "Issuer": "See user Secret",
    "Audience": "see user secret",
    "UserSecret": "see user secret"
  }

Deploy

I have used Azure web apps free forever version for deployment of this application.