meeks71 / blogapi

TechBlogAPI

A blog API that allows user to register with Authorization Schema. User receives a Token at the header, with the token the user can access Public blogs and create a blog with a username at the endpoint. User can also find blog and can adjust/delete blog with id. The API protects API with a hashed password. Usernames/Emails must also be unique during the registration process. Website:

Tech Stack Server: Node, Express

Database: MongoDB

Tools: Postman

Environment Variables To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

MONGODB_URI JWT_SECRET SALT Run Locally To clone the project, you must follow all steps and have all dependencies in order to run the project locally.

Git clone - (https://github.com/Meeks71/blogapi)

Go to the DOCUMENTS directory

cd blogapi

Install dependencies npm init -y

npm i:

-bcrypt -dotenv -express -helmet -jsonwebtoken -mongoose -morgan

Routes

• Endpoints, Parameters, Schema server -app.get('/') returns message "WELCOME TO MY BLOG API!!"

Routes Auth('/auth') creates Users and Login

router.post('/'): Register Users, AuthSchema is used. password is hashed

router.post('/'): Login with username and password only. Token is sent to header for further acess

router.get('/'): base endpoint Finds all users. Protected with token sent to header No parameters

Blog('/blog') router.get('/'): all Public blogs are included, must be logged in and have a token

router.post('/'): Creates Blog with blogSchema, username parameter(String) name is needed to post blog

router.put('/:id'): Updates blog with id, parameter(String) id is needed to update blog

router.get('/:id'): Returns blog associcated to id, parameter(String) id is required to find blog. onlyprivate blogs appear

router.delete('/:id): Deletes blog associated with id, need a token for Authorization and parameter(string) id is required to delete blog

Schemas userSchema: username: type: String, required: true

email: type: String, required: true

birthday: type: Date, required: true

age: type: Number, required: true

password: type: String, required: true

blogSchema:

username: type: String required: true,

password: type: String, required: true,

email: type: String, required: true,

birthday: type: Number, required: true,

age: type: Number

Middleware verifyToken: gets token from header and check that it matches token sent.

CreateBlog: uses login function to verify user is logged to aceess and post blogs. userame and password required, if passwords or username do not match 400 error will be sent