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This is a API created using node.js and express. Client app is here.

• Prisma ORM with MongoDB.
• Routes: user, posts, comments, likes, follow.
• Controllers for this routes.
• JWT authentication.
• Generating an avatar when creating a new account using the jdenticon library.
• Dockerfile configuration.
• Docker-compose configuration: express-app, database and client-app containers.

⚠️ Before installing the project latest version of npm should be installed.

npm install -g npm@latest

⚠️ You will also need Docker. It can be installed from the official Docker website.

1. Clone the repo with API:

git clone https://github.com/dmitrygvl/blog-platform-API.git

2. Clone the repo with client app:

git clone https://github.com/dmitrygvl/blog-platform-client.git

3. Open a terminal (or command line) and go to the root directory of the server:

cd blog-platform-API

4. Rename the .env.local file to .env:

mv .env.sample .env

5. Rename the env.local file to env:

mv .env.sample .env

6. Set your secret key in the env file. it can be any string:

SECRET_KEY='YOUR_SECRET_KEY'

7. Run the docker build command. The blog-platform-API and blog-platform-client folders must be in the same directory:

docker compose up

8. Open your browser and go to http://localhost:80 to see the running project.