Blog Platform

A Node.js-based blogging platform with full CRUD functionality, user authentication, comments, and post management.

---

🚀 Features

• User registration & authentication (sessions or JWT)
• Create, read, update, delete (CRUD) blog posts
• Add and manage comments on posts
• Fetch posts and comments by ID
• Clean project structure (configs, middleware, models, routes, services)
• Ready for future enhancements like templating or frontend integration

---

📂 Project Structure

blog-platform/
├── configs/ # Configuration files (DB, environment)
├── middleware/ # Authentication, error handling, etc.
├── models/ # Data models (Posts, Users, Comments)
├── routes/ # API endpoints
├── services/ # Business logic & utilities
├── app.js # Entry point / server setup
├── index.js # Application bootstrap
├── package.json # Project metadata
└── README.md # Project documentation

---

🛠️ Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/addzz24/blog-platform.git
   cd blog-platform

2. Install dependencies

   npm install

3. Set up environment variables (Create New .env file in your root directory)

    PORT=3000
    DATABASE_URL=your_database_url
    JWT_SECRET=your_secret

4. Run the server

  Run the server
  npm start

The server should now be running at http://localhost:3000

---

📂 .env example

1. Server configuration PORT=3000

2. Database connection DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/blogdb

3. JWT secret for authentication JWT_SECRET=supersecretkey

---

📖 Usage

• Register and authenticate users

• Create, update, and delete posts

• Add and manage comments

• Query posts and comments by ID