Blog_app

REST API's for blogging Application

Hosted App link

https://aj1398.herokuapp.com

STEPS TO SETUP

1. Install dependencies

  npm install

2. Run Node server open terminal inside root folder

npm start

API DOCUMENTATION

1) Register

POST /register Allows user to register herself on the platform with basic information >Username, password, firstname, lastname, blogURL

2) Login

POST /login

     authenticates the user and provides him with an access_token in response.this access_token must be used for his authentication when he makes any request
     
     For example if he makes a request to /blogpost he will need to send the access_token(which he got as a response when he made a request for login) with the body of request 

3) Follow

PUT /follow/{username}

  Allows you to follow new user. You need to send the user's name whom you want to follow as params
  and your access_token with the body of request to authenticate yourself

4) Creating Blogpost

POST /  blogpost

Allows user to create a blog post with following parameters
   ...Title, content
  You need to send the access_token with the body of request to authenticate yourself

5) Getting blog feed of users you follow

GET /feed

 Returns all blog posts of users you follow and you need to send the access_token in the headers of request to authenticate yourself