saloni-15 / POST-O-BLOG

A fully authenticated, dynamically updating blogging website with markdown support to create posts sharing thoughts, ideas, and experiences.

POST-O-BLOG

• A blogging website to create posts sharing thoughts, ideas, and experiences.
• This website also supports Markdown to create different text styles and make your posts more readable.
• Just create an account and compose your own posts and don't forget to like other's posts 😁.
• Also get the collection of all of your posts in your profile.

Post-O-Blog.mp4

Checkout the Deployed website : https://post-o-blog.herokuapp.com/

TECHNOLOGY USED

NPM DEPENDENCIES

  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
    "dompurify": "^2.3.0",
    "dotenv": "^10.0.0",
    "ejs": "^3.1.6",
    "express": "^4.17.1",
    "express-session": "^1.17.2",
    "jsdom": "^16.6.0",
    "marked": "^2.1.3",
    "method-override": "^3.0.0",
    "mongoose": "^5.13.3",
    "mongoose-findorcreate": "^3.0.0",
    "passport": "^0.4.1",
    "passport-google-oauth20": "^2.0.0",
    "passport-local-mongoose": "^6.1.0"
  }

LOCAL ENVIRONMENT SETUP

• Clone repository by running this command on git-bash

    git clone https://github.com/<your user-name>/POST-O-BLOG.git

• Run command cd POST-O-BLOG

• Install Dependencies using

    npm install

• Run this command when in root directory to make .env file

    touch .env

• Add this to .env file
  • Please Note, the ATLAS_URI is not the database link of MongoDB Atlas, its just the variable name. The URL is for local use only.

    SECRET=thisIsMySecret
    ATLAS_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/postblogDB

• Testing : Run this command on your terminal/ bash to start the Mongo server on port 27017(default).

    mongod

• Run this command to start the project.

    node app.js

• Open link to view the website in your browser window if it doesn't open automatically.

    http://localhost:3000/

• That's all, now just Sign Up to POST-O-BLOG and compose your own posts.