WriteFlow

WriteFlow is a full-stack blogging application that enables users to securely create, manage, and interact with posts through a scalable REST API powered by Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, and JWT Authentication.

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🚀 Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• PostgreSQL
• pg
• JWT Authentication
• bcrypt
• cookie-parser
• cors
• dotenv

Frontend

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

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✨ Features

• 🔐 User Authentication
• 🍪 HTTP-only Cookie Authentication
• 📝 CRUD Operations for Posts
• 💬 CRUD Operations for Comments
• 🔍 Search Posts
• 📄 Pagination
• 👤 Author-only Update/Delete
• 🛡️ Admin Authorization
• 🏗 Layered Architecture
• ⚡ RESTful API

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📂 Project Structure

src/
│
├── controllers/
├── services/
├── repositories/
├── routes/
├── middlewares/
├── validators/
├── utils/
│
├── app.js

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🗄 Database

Current tables

• Users
• Posts
• Comments

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🔐 Authentication Routes

Method	Endpoint	Description	Protected
POST	/api/auth/register	Register a new user	❌
POST	/api/auth/login	Login user	❌
POST	/api/auth/logout	Logout user	✅
GET	/api/auth/me	Get current authenticated user	✅

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📝 Post Routes

Method	Endpoint	Description	Protected
POST	/api/post/create	Create a new post	✅
GET	/api/post	Get all posts	✅
GET	/api/post/:id	Get post by ID	✅
PATCH	/api/post/:id	Update own post	✅
DELETE	/api/post/:id	Delete own post/Admin	✅

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💬 Comment Routes

Method	Endpoint	Description	Protected
POST	/api/post/comment/:id	Create comment on a post	✅
GET	/api/post/comment/:id	Get comments of a post	✅
PUT	/api/post/comment/:id	Update own comment	✅
DELETE	/api/post/comment/:id	Delete own comment/Admin	✅

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⚙️ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/lavishlohiya/writeflow.git

Move into the project

cd writeflow

Install dependencies

npm install

Create a .env file

PORT=1002
DATABASE_URL=your_database_url
JWT_SECRET=your_secret_key

Run the server

npm start

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📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

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Login

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🚧 Future Improvements

• 🖼 Image Uploads
• ❤️ Like System
• 👤 User Profiles
• 🏷 Categories & Tags
• 📂 File Storage
• 🐳 Docker
• 🧪 Unit & Integration Tests
• 🚀 CI/CD Pipeline

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📄 License

Licensed under the MIT License.

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Author

Lavish Lohiya