🌐 Blogify – A Full-Stack Blogging Platform

Blogify is a full-featured blogging web application built using the MERN (without React) stack. It allows users to sign up, sign in, create blog posts with image uploads, and view their personalized content securely.

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🚀 Features

• 🧑‍💻 User authentication with secure JWT-based session handling
• ✍️ Create, read, and view blog posts with cover image support
• 📸 Image uploads handled with Multer and stored locally
• 🧭 Dynamic UI rendering based on user login state
• 📚 Clean MVC architecture with EJS templating
• 🎨 Responsive Bootstrap 5 UI

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Node.js, Express.js
Frontend	EJS (Embedded JavaScript) templates
Database	MongoDB with Mongoose ODM
Authentication	JWT (JSON Web Tokens) via cookies
File Uploads	Multer
Styling	Bootstrap 5

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📂 Folder Structure

Blog-App/
├── middlewares/              # Custom Express middlewares
│   └── authentication.js     # JWT authentication logic
├── models/                   # Mongoose schema models
│   ├── blog.js               # Blog schema
│   ├── comments.js           # Comment schema (optional)
│   └── user.js               # User schema
├── node_modules/             # Installed dependencies
├── public/                   # Static assets
│   ├── images/               # Placeholder/static images
│   └── uploads/              # Uploaded blog cover images
├── routes/                   # Express route handlers
│   ├── blog.js               # Blog-related routes
│   └── user.js               # User routes (signup/signin/logout)
├── services/                 # Logic services
│   └── authentication.js     # Token generation/validation
├── views/                    # EJS templates
│   ├── partials/             # Reusable partial templates
│   │   ├── head.ejs
│   │   ├── nav.ejs
│   │   └── scripts.ejs
│   ├── addBlog.ejs           # Add new blog form
│   ├── blog.ejs              # Blog detail view
│   ├── home.ejs              # Home page with all blogs
│   ├── signin.ejs            # Login page
│   └── signup.ejs            # Register page
├── index.js                  # Main Express app
├── package.json              # Project dependencies
├── package-lock.json         # Locked versions of dependencies
└── README.md                 # Project documentation

🛠️ Installation & Setup

To run this project locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/blogify.git
   cd blogify
   

2. Install all Dependencies

npm install

3. Ensure MongoDB is running locally

By default, the app connects to: mongodb://localhost:27017/blogify

4. Start the development server npm run dev

5. Visit the app in your browser

http://localhost:8000