This is a minimal blog api with some advance features developed using NodeJS, ExpressJS and MongoDB. If you are looking for a free RESTful API to interact with feel free to use this. It's open source.
This is a minimal blog api with some advance features developed using NodeJS, ExpressJS and MongoDB. If you are looking for a free RESTful API to interact with feel free to use this. It's open source.
Hosted on netlify: Blog API
Extensive and testing documentation with postman: Blog API
Though the diagram uses sql data type, this diagram is to show you the various collections in the mongo database.
Modify the config/.env file to your environment variables, set your JWT_SECRET and SMTP variables
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3001
MONGO_URI=YOUR_URL
JWT_SECRET=YOUR_SECRET
JWT_EXPIRE=30d
JWT_COOKIE_EXPIRE=30
SMTP_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
SMTP_PORT=2525
SMTP_EMAIL=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
[email protected]
FROM_NAME=Boilerplate
Email testing: use mailtrap for email testing, it's easy no stress.
Install all npm dependecies
npm install
Install nodemon globally
npm install -g nodemon
Run database seeder
node seeder -i
Delete all data
node seeder -d
node run dev
This project is licensed under the MIT License
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