Blog API Project

This is a simple blog project that I created during my time in the london app brewery's web development bootcamp. This project demonstrates my skills and understanding of back end development and RESTful APIs.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • Screenshot
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
• Setup
  • Installing packages
  • Running on command line

Overview

Screenshot

THe blog API is capable of storing blog posts which can be edited or deleted. Since the server isn't connected to a database, the information stored in a session is only temporary, and would be deleted upon exiting or refreshing the page.

My process

Built with

• HTML
• CSS
• EJS
• Javascript
• NodeJS
• Axios

What I learned

I was able to perform GET, POST, PATCH, and DELETE commands in a NodeJS server.

Running the blog on your local computer

Installing packages

Upon downloading/cloning the repository, execute the following commands in Bash or your Command line of choice to install the package dependencies.

$ cd <repository filepath>
$ npm install

Running on command line (Bash)

After which, open two instances of a terminal (which are have cd'd to the repository filepath), then run the following on each of them:

$ node index.js

$ node server.js

Both should return the following results:

$ node index.js
API is running at http://localhost:4000

$ node index.js
Backend server is running on http://localhost:3000

Open http://localhost:3000 on your browser, and you should see the blog site.