Personal Blogging Platform API

Description

This is a simple RESTful API built to power a personal blogging platform. It supports the basic CRUD operations to manage blog articles — create, read, update, and delete.

The API allows you to:

• Retrieve a list of articles, with optional filters like publishing date or tags.
• Get details of a single article by its ID.
• Create new articles to publish.
• Update existing articles by ID.
• Delete articles by ID.

Tech Stack

• Node.js with Express.js — backend framework
• MongoDB with Mongoose — database and ORM
• dotenv — environment variable management
• nodemon — development server auto-restart
• Postman — API testing

Main Operations

• Create a new blog article
• Read articles:
  • List all articles
  • Retrieve single article by ID
  • Filter by tags (e.g., ?tag=tech)
  • Sort by creation date (ascending or descending)
• Update existing articles by ID
• Delete articles by ID

Features

• Input validation for required fields (title, content)
• Centralized error handling with clear messages
• Health check endpoint (GET /) to verify server status
• Fully functional CRUD operations for blog articles
• Filtering support for article listing (date, tags)
• Clean, maintainable API endpoints
• Structured to be extended with authentication, comments, or more complex features later

Why Build This?

It’s a foundational backend project that teaches:

• REST API principles
• CRUD operations
• Server-side routing
• Database integration
• Query filters and parameters

Perfect for anyone starting in backend development or wanting a simple but practical API project.