MERN Blog

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started

About

MERN Blog is a full-stack blogging web application for managing blog posts.

Main Features

1. Fully-responsive webiste
2. User authentication and authorization (which means users can login, register and logout to and from the platform, they can only delete their own posts)
3. Users can write a blog post with markdown text and insert image, video in their posts
4. Users can delete their own posts
5. Logged-in users can save any post
6. Logged-in users can create comments on any blogpost and can delete their own comments
7. Admin user can delete posts and comments

TODO Features

1. Search and filter blogposts
2. Increase number of visits for posts as they are being visited
3. Admin user can mark certain posts as featured

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

1. Node.js and npm

node -v
npm -v

2. Clerk account
3. Imagekit account

Installing

1. Copy .env.example file and rename it .env, then, add necessary variables
2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/rawdaymohamed/mern-blog
cd mern-blog

3. Run the backend

cd backend
npm i
npm run dev

4. Run the frontend

cd frontend
npm i
npm run dev

5. Go to http://localhost:3000