In the Blogs-API Project, we and all students of my class on trybe had to make an RESTful API to handle CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) actions in the context of a blogging site. The application was built on the MSC (Models, Services and Controllers) architecture to ensure more organization and security. The users of the website can create and delete accounts in order to create, edit and delete blog posts and post categories.
The application was made using Node.js and Express.Js. To handle the database (and structure it with migrations), the model layer was built using Sequelize (ORM tool), which facilitates future changes to the code or database.
As users can only change the data referring to their own blog, we used JWT (token validation) both for creating/deleting accounts and for creating/editing/deleting new blog posts and post categories.
Node.js
Express.js
JSON Web Token (JWT)
Sequelize
MySQL
After cloning the repository, install the necessary dependencies with the npm install command on your terminal and start the project with the npm start command. You can create the database with npm run prestart or drop it with npm run drop. To populate its tables, use npm run seed. After that, you can make requests to the API using an HTTP client (Insomnia, Postman, HTTPie, etc.).
Endpoint for Login
- post('/');
Endpoints for Users
- post('/');
- get('/');
- get('/:id');
- delete('/me');
Endpoints for Blog Posts
- post('/');
- get('/search');
- get('/');
- get('/:id');
- put('/:id');
- delete('/:id');
Endpoints for Categories
- post('/');
- get('/');
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