📝 Blog API

A full-featured RESTful Blog API built with Node.js, Express, TypeScript, and MongoDB using JWT-based cookie authentication. Authenticated users can create, update, delete blog posts, leave comments, and like posts.

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🔧 Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Express.js
• TypeScript
• MongoDB + Mongoose
• JWT + Cookie Authentication
• bcryptjs for password hashing
• express-validator for input validation
• cookie-parser

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🚀 Features

🟢 Authentication

• POST /api/userRegistration – Register as a new user
• POST /api/adminRegistration – Register as an admin
• POST /api/login – Login user and set HTTP-only JWT cookie
• GET /api/getInformation – Get information about current logged-in user

📝 Blogs

• POST /api/createBlogPost – Create a new blog post (auth required)
• GET /api//blogSearch?title=Something&tag=someThing&page=somePage&limit=SomeLimit(max 50) – Get all blog posts with pagination title search query and tags search query
• PATCH /api/editBlogPost – Update a blog post (owner & admin only)
• DELETE /api/deleteBlogPost – Delete a blog post (owner & admin only)
• GET /api/createdBlogs - Get created blog posts
• PATCH /api/changePublishStatus - Change publish status of a blog post (owner & admin only)
• GET /api/publishedPosts - Get published posts
• PATCH /api/like-unlikeBlogPost - Like or unlike blog post

💬 Comments

• POST /api/blogs/newComment – Add a comment to a blog (auth required)
• DELETE /api/deleteComment – Delete a comment (only the comment’s author)
• GET /api/getPostsComments – Get all comments under a post
• PATCH /api/likeOrUnlikeComment – Like or unlike a comment
• PATCH /api/editCommentContent – Edit a comments content (sender & admin only)

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🧪 Running Locally

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/jamaldeen09/Blog-RESTFUL-API.git
cd Blog-RESTFUL-API