Friday Blog App

Friday is a backend project for blog application which uses NodeJS, Express and MongoDB. All extended CRUD capabilities are implemented, mailing and SMS events as well as text search queries and aggregation queries.

Capabilities

• A user is able to register, get a JWT Token, create account, modify user information, specify preferences for contact, indicate interested in topics, and delete the account. The user can reset the password by receiving email.
• A user is able to post a blog, modify the blog content, and add hashtags to blog.
• A user is able to receive recommended blogs for his/her interests.
• A user is able to post a comment, modify the content of a comment, send like to blog and can take back like sent on the blog. If a user liked a blog before, the application warns the user and does now allow the user to move on. Likewise; if a user did not liked a blog before, the user is not able to revert like.
• A user is able to create reading lists with a name that holds other users' blogs.
• When a blog is deleted, the application deletes comments posted on this blog as well. In addition, the deleted blog is removed from the playlists of each user if exists.
• When a user account is deleted, the application clears and removes all necessary information that deleted user is related to. Consequently; comments, blogs and reading lists are removed related to this user.

Installation

Use the package manager yarn to install project.

yarn install

Run

Use the package manager yarn to run project.

yarn dev or yarn start

MongoDB Schemas and Entity Relationship Diagram

Documentation for API Endpoints

• The rest of the file gives detailed information about endpoints for each service.

Users Service

Method	Description	Required Body Fields	Authentication
GET /users	Returns all users documents		required
GET /whoami	Returns current session info of user		required
POST /users	Returns new created user document	name, email, password	required
POST /users/login	Returns logged in user info and authentication token	email, password	not required
POST /users/reset-password	Returns information and sends email to user mail	email	not required
PATCH /users	Returns updated user information		not required
PATCH /users/change-password	Returns information and sends SMS to user phone number	password	required
DELETE /users/:userid	Deletes user account and user related data in other collections		required

Blogs Service

Method	Description	Required Body Fields	Authentication
GET /blogs	Returns all blogs documents		not required
GET /blogs/popular-blogs	Returns most liked and published top ten blogs		not required
GET /blogs/popular-blogs/:category	Returns most liked and published top five blogs by filter category		not required
GET /blogs/search-by-keywords	Returns blogs that contains given words in the body	{keywords: "coffee newyork programming"}	not required
GET /blogs/recommend-me	Returns recommended blogs to user by looking users' preferred hashtags and querying these tags for blogs		required
GET /blogs/:id	Returns updated user information		required
POST /blogs	Returns new created blog document	text, title, category	required
PATCH /blogs/:id	Returns updated blog document		required
PATCH /blogs/:id/like-flag	Sends like to blog or revert the like, returns updated document	{liked: boolean}	required
DELETE /blogs/:id	Deletes the blog by given id and deletes if comments exists for this blog		required

Comments Service

Method	Description	Required Body Fields	Authentication
GET /comments	Returns all comments documents		not required
GET /comments/:id	Returns single comment by given id		required
POST /comments	Returns new created comment document	text	required
PATCH /comments/:id	Returns updated comment	text, blog_id	required
DELETE /comments/:id	Returns success info and removes comment		required

Readinglists Service

Method	Description	Required Body Fields	Authentication
GET /readinglists	Returns all readinglists documents		required
GET /readinglists/:id	Returns single readinglist by given id		required
POST /readinglists	Returns new created readinglist	name	required
PATCH /readinglists	Returns updated readinglist		required
PATCH /:id/add-blog/:blogId	Adds given blog to given reading list and returns updated document		required
PATCH /:id/remove-blog/:blogId	Removes given blog from given reading list and returns updated document		required
DELETE /readinglists/:id	Removes reading list		required

Twilio SMS Extension

• An event is fired when a user changes his/her password. Following this, if user specified to receive SMS on users document preferences then SMS is sent by Twilio services. Make sure that, you have added related information to .env file

Nodemailer Extension

• An event is fired when a user resets his/her password.