Welcome to the Blogging API project! This API was created as a challenge inspired by roadmap.sh, aimed at honing skills in MongoDB, Node.js, asynchronous programming, and problem-solving.

• Create, read, update, and delete blog posts
• User authentication and authorization
• Comment on posts
• Like and dislike posts
• Filter posts by categories and tags
• Search functionality

• Node.js (v12.x or later)
• MongoDB (Ensure MongoDB server is running)

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/blogging-api.git
   cd blogging-api

2. Install the dependencies:

   npm install

3. Create a .env file in the root directory and add your MongoDB URI and other environment variables:

   MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_uri
   JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret

1. Start the server:

   npm start

2. Using Postman to test the API:

   • Open Postman.
   • Load the API endpoints to interact with the Blogging API.

• Register a new user

  POST /api/auth/register

  • Body:

    {
        "username": "string",
        "email": "string",
        "password": "string"
    }

• Login

  POST /api/auth/login

  • Body:

    {
        "email": "string",
        "password": "string"
    }

• Create a new post

  POST /api/posts

  • Headers:

    {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
    }

  • Body:

    {
        "title": "string",
        "content": "string",
        "tags": ["string"],
        "category": "string"
    }

• Get all posts

  GET /api/posts

• Get a single post

  GET /api/posts/:id

• Update a post

  PUT /api/posts/:id

  • Headers:

    {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
    }

  • Body:

    {
        "title": "string",
        "content": "string",
        "tags": ["string"],
        "category": "string"
    }

• Delete a post

  DELETE /api/posts/:id

  • Headers:

    {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
    }

• Add a comment to a post

  POST /api/posts/:id/comments

  • Headers:

    {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
    }

  • Body:

    {
        "content": "string"
    }

• Get comments for a post

  GET /api/posts/:id/comments

• Delete a comment

  DELETE /api/posts/:postId/comments/:commentId

  • Headers:

    {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
    }

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.