Blog App API

This project is a RESTful API developed using Node.js and Express. The API interacts with a MongoDB database and is documented with Swagger.

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Table of Contents

• Technologies Used
• Documentation
• Endpoints
• Project Skeleton

Live Demo

Blog App API

Technologies Used

• Node.js: A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
• Express: A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
• Mongoose: An ODM (Object Data Modeling) library for MongoDB and Node.js, providing a straight-forward, schema-based solution to model your application data.
• dotenv: A zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env.
• cors: A node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) with various options.
• express-async-errors: A small utility to handle errors in async/await routes in Express.
• redoc-express: A middleware for hosting OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation using ReDoc.
• request-ip: A simple way to retrieve a user's IP address in a Node.js application.
• swagger-autogen: A tool to automatically generate Swagger/OpenAPI documentation from existing code.
• swagger-ui-express: A middleware for serving the Swagger UI bound to your Swagger/OpenAPI specification.
• validator: A library for string validation and sanitization.

Documentation

• Swagger UI: https://blog-app-api-iota.vercel.app/documents/swagger
• Redoc: https://blog-app-api-iota.vercel.app/documents/redoc
• JSON Documentation: https://blog-app-api-iota.vercel.app/documents/json

Endpoints

Users

• GET /users: Lists all users.
• POST /users: Creates a new user.
• GET /users/:userId: Displays a specific user.
• PUT /users/:userId: Updates information of a specific user.
• DELETE /users/:userId: Deletes a specific user.

Authentication

• POST /auth/login: Provides user login.
• GET /auth/logout: Terminates the user session.

Blogs

• GET /blogs: Lists all blogs.
• POST /blogs: Creates a new blog.
• GET /blogs/:blogId: Displays a specific blog.
• PUT /blogs/:blogId: Updates information of a specific blog.
• DELETE /blogs/:blogId: Deletes a specific blog.

Categories

• GET /categories: Lists all blog categories.
• POST /categories: Creates a new blog category.
• GET /categories/:categoryId: Displays a specific blog category.
• PUT /categories/:categoryId: Updates information of a specific blog category.
• DELETE /categories/:categoryId: Deletes a specific blog category.

Comments

• GET /comments: Lists all comments.
• POST /comments: Creates a new comment.
• GET /comments/:commentId: Displays a specific comment.
• PUT /comments/:commentId: Updates information of a specific comment.
• DELETE /comments/:commentId: Deletes a specific comment.

Project Skeleton

Blog App API (folder) 
│
├── src
│    ├── configs
│    │     ├── dbConnection.js
│    │     └── swagger.json
│    ├── controllers
│    │     ├── auth.js     
│    │     ├── blog.js          
│    │     ├── category.js          
│    │     ├── comment.js          
│    │     ├── product.js     
│    │     ├── token.js     
│    │     └── user.js
│    ├── helpers
│    │     ├── passwordEncrypt.js    
│    │     └── sync.js 
│    ├── middlewares 
│    │     ├── authentication.js 
│    │     ├── errorHandler.js 
│    │     ├── permissions.js   
│    │     ├── queryHandler.js   
│    │     └── requestIp.js 
│    ├── models                        
│    │     ├── blog.js          
│    │     ├── category.js          
│    │     ├── comment.js              
│    │     ├── token.js     
│    │     └── user.js
│    └── routes                
│          ├── auth.js     
│          ├── blog.js     
│          ├── category.js     
│          ├── comment.js     
│          ├── document.js     
│          ├── index.js         
│          ├── token.js     
│          └── user.js
├── .gitignore
├── index.js
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── swaggerAutogen.js
├── vercel.json
└── README.md