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Backend NodeJS Second Semester

Examination Project (Blogging API)

Question

​ You are required to build a blogging api. The general idea here is that the api has a general endpoint that shows a list of articles that have been created by different people, and anybody that calls this endpoint, should be able to read a blog created by them or other users.

Requirements

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  • Users should have a first_name, last_name, email, password, (you can add other attributes you want to store about the user)
  • A user should be able to sign up and sign in into the blog app
  • Use JWT as authentication strategy and expire the token after 1 hour
  • A blog can be in two states; draft and published
  • Logged in and not logged in users should be able to get a list of published blogs created
  • Logged in and not logged in users should be able to to get a published blog
  • Logged in users should be able to create a blog.
  • When a blog is created, it is in draft state
  • The owner of the blog should be able to update the state of the blog to published
  • The owner of a blog should be able to edit the blog in draft or published state
  • The owner of the blog should be able to delete the blog in draft or published state
  • The owner of the blog should be able to get a list of their blogs.
    • The endpoint should be paginated
    • It should be filterable by state
  • Blogs created should have title, description, tags, author, timestamp, state, read_count, reading_time and body.
  • The list of blogs endpoint that can be accessed by both logged in and not logged in users should be paginated,
    • default it to 20 blogs per page.
    • It should also be searchable by author, title and tags.
    • It should also be orderable by read_count, reading_time and timestamp
  • When a single blog is requested, the api should return the user information with the blog. The read_count of the blog too should be updated by 1
  • Come up with any algorithm for calculating the reading_time of the blog.

Note:

  • The owner of the blog should be logged in to perform actions
  • Use the MVC pattern

Database

Use MongoDB

D​ata Models

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User

  • email is required and should be unique
  • first_name and last_name is required
  • password ​

Blog/Article

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  • title is required and unique
  • description
  • author
  • state
  • read_count
  • reading_time
  • tags
  • body is required
  • timestamp ​

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Submission

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  • Push your code to GitHub
  • Host it on heroku
  • Share the heroku link and the GitHub link ​ ​ ​

Helpful links

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Best of luck!