Blogging-app

A small post application built on MERN. With authorization and the ability to create, modify and delete posts, and attach images to them. Also their comments. Counting the number of post views and displaying them.

Technologies and Libraries Used :

MongoDB - document database.
Express - Node.js web framework.
React - a client-side JavaScript framework.
Node.js - the premier JavaScript web server.
Redux - a state management library that allows developers to manage the state of an application in a centralized store.
Cloudinary - provides cloud-based image and video management services.
jsonwebtoken - a way of securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.
bcrypt - a password-hashing function used for password storage in web applications.
Material-UI(MUI) - a popular React component library that provides pre-designed, customizable UI components.

The project was also developed with the help of ESLint and Prettier.

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

$ git clone git@github.com:OlAndrey/Blogging-app.git
$ cd blogging-app

Create a .env file in the backend directory
MONGODB_URL - Insert the correct connection URL for your MongoDB database

mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<username>.fxrpe.mongodb.net/BlogDB?retryWrites=true&w=majority
JWT_SECRET - is a secret key used to sign JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to ensure that the data in them can be trusted and has not been altered.
CLOUDINARY - used to store images attached to posts.

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME : cloud_name

CLOUDINARY_API_KEY : api_key

CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET : api_secret

Backend

cd into backend and write npm install or npm i in command terminal
```
$ cd server
$/server npm install
```
Write npm run dev to start the backend server
```
$/server npm run dev
```

Frontend

cd into my-project and write npm install or npm i in command terminal
```
$ cd client
$/client npm install
```
Write npm start to start the react server
```
$/client npm start
```