A RESTful Blogging API built with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
This project showcases backend development, authentication, authorization, and CRUD operations with Postman-tested APIs.

• 🚀 Features
• 🛠 Tech Stack
• 📂 Database Models
• 📌 API Endpoints
• 🔐 Security
• 📚 Setup & Run
• ✅ Sample Response
• 🎥 Demo
• 👥 Contributors

• 👤 Author Management
  • Create authors with validation & unique emails
• 📝 Blog Management
  • Create blogs for registered authors
  • Get all published & non-deleted blogs
  • Filter blogs by author, category, tags, subcategories
  • Update blogs (title, body, tags, subcategories, publish status)
  • Soft delete blogs (by ID or query filters)

• 🔑 JWT Authentication (login with email & password)
• 🛡 Protected Routes (secured with middleware)
• ✅ Authorization (only blog owners can edit/delete their blogs)

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js
• Database: MongoDB with Mongoose
• Authentication: JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• Other Tools: bcrypt (password hashing), Postman (API testing)

{
  fname: { type: String, required: true },
  lname: { type: String, required: true },
  title: { type: String, enum: ["Mr", "Mrs", "Miss"], required: true },
  email: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
  password: { type: String, required: true }
}