Create Blog Schema

Author: drkspark

backend/models/blog.js

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+const mongoose = require("mongoose");
+
+const blogSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
+    {
+        title: {
+            type: String,
+            required: [true, "Can't create Blog without Title"],
+        },
+        author: {
+            type: String,
+            required: [true, "Can't create Blog without Author"],
+        },
+        content: {
+            type: String,
+            required: [true, "Can't create Blog without Content"],
+        },
+        tags: [
+            {
+                type: String,
+            },
+        ],
+        // So as to identfiy the owner of the blog and will help in retrieval of blogs
+        // User Id has to be fetched from FireBase user DB, since we will be uisng it for authentication.
+        userId: {
+            type: String,
+        },
+        date: {
+            type: String,
+        },
+        likes: {
+            type: Number,
+            default: 0,
+        },
+    },
+    { timestamps: true }
+);
+
+// This will extract Date from the createAt and store as dd-mm-yyyy
+blogSchema.pre("save", function (next) {
+    let date = JSON.stringify(this.createdAt)
+        .substring(1, 11)
+        .split("-")
+        .reverse()
+        .join("-");
+
+    this.date = date;
+    next();
+});
+
+const Blog = mongoose.model("Blog", blogSchema);
+
+module.exports = Blog;

backend/server.js

@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
-const express = require('express');
-const path = require('path');
-const cors = require('cors');
-const { PORT } = require('./config/serverConfig');
-const connect = require('./config/database');
-
+const express = require("express");
+const path = require("path");
+const cors = require("cors");
+const { PORT } = require("./config/serverConfig");
+const connect = require("./config/database");
+const Blog = require("./models/blog");
 
 const app = express();
 
-app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '../frontend/build')));
+app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, "../frontend/build")));
 app.use(cors());
 app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
 app.use(express.json());
 
-app.get('/', (req, res) => {
-    res.send('hello World!');
+app.get("/", (req, res) => {
+    res.send("hello World!");
 });
 
 app.listen(PORT, async () => {
     console.log(`Server started on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
     await connect();
-    console.log('DB Connected');
+    console.log("DB Connected");
+
+    // const blog = await Blog.create({
+    //     title: "Blog With Commentss",
+    //     author: "drkspark",
+    //     content: "Hello World",
+    //     tags: ["WebDev", "Trying First Time"],
+    // });
+    // console.log(blog);
 });