Full Stack blog website (MERN)

A personal blog platform built with Node.js + JavaScript + CSS/HTML.

🚀 Project Overview

This project is a blogging system (frontend + backend) composed of:

• client/ – The front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• api/ – The backend (Node.js)
• Purpose: Share blog content, possibly with CRUD operations, etc.

✅ Features

• Clean client UI for reading/creating blog posts

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• Backend API to support blog data operations

• Modular folder structure (client + api) .

- blog/
├── api/              # Node.js backend code  
├── client/           # Frontend UI code  
├── node_modules/     # Installed dependencies  
├── package-lock.json  
└── package.json  

• Uses standard web technologies (JS, CSS, HTML) + Node.js environment.

• Uses JWT authentication.

• Good base for extending — e.g., user authentication, comments, styling themes.

• Allows to edit the already created blog (only for the author) and also show the last updated time for a blog

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• Stores content and cover images in MongoDB.

Although its only a minimalist design, but still provides smooth UI and easy to use.

🧰 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v14+ recommended)
• npm or yarn
• (Optional) A database if you extend it (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL)

Installation

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/MadhurJain06/blog.git  
cd blog  

# Install backend dependencies and to run (backend connect)
cd api  
npm install
npx nodemon server.js  

# Install frontend dependencies (if any) and to run
cd ../client  
npm install  
npm run dev