Stopnc

This is a social media blogging platform where user can follow other bloggers to be updated about latest fashion trends and can share their fashion sense to others.

How to run the app

Either fork or download the app and open the folder in CLI.
Install all the dependencies using npm i command.
Start the front-end server using ng serve command. Front-end will be served at http://localhost:4200
Initialize the database server using mongocli at http://localhost:27017
Initialize elasticSearch Client.
Initialize Redis Client.
Start the back-end server using node server command. Back-end will be served at http://localhost:3000
Go to http://localhost:4200 using a web browser

How to write a blog

Signup/Login to the app using your credentials or using your google account.
Open the dropdown by clicking on the profile icon at top right of the navigation bar.
Select become a blogger
Write your blog using the editor
Upload some relevant images or videos
Click on save to publish your blog.

How to edit your profile

Open the dropdown
Click on your name. you will be navigated to the profile page
Click on edit profile button
Do the required editts and click on save

User Stories

A user can create new blogs.
A user can like other user's blogs.
A user can comment on the blogs.
A user can bookmark any blog.
A user can edit their profile.
A user can follow/unfollow other users.
A user can search other users and blogs.
A user can upload image or video in the blog.
A user can sort blog according to the categories.

Features

-Notification

Every notification is a seperate entity with following schema:

    {
  message: {
      type: String,
      required: true
  },
  recipient: {
      type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
      ref: 'User'
  },
  refId: {
      type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
      refPath: 'type'
  },
  type: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
      enum: ['User', 'Post']
  },
  isRead: {
      type: Boolean,
      default: false
  }
}

Once the notification is read isread is assigned value false.
Refid contains id of Object to which user will be redirected to according to the type of the source of notification.

-Comment

Every comment is a seperate entity with following schema:

 {
 body: {
     type: String
 },
 author: {
     type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
     ref: 'user'
 },
 date: {
     type: Date,
     default: Date.now
 },
 blog: {
     type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
     ref: 'Post'
 },
 like: [{
     type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
     ref: 'user'
 }]

}

Every comment have a time-stamp automatically applied by the database.
Comment have an array of likes as attribute which stores user-id corresponding to every like on the comment.

Future Features

Personalized feed according the the user's interest.

What the app looks like

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.

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