baseUrl = https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api

url: [$baseUrl]/blogs/
Method: GET

// with Postman

url:   [$baseUrl]/users/       // https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/users/
Method: POST
Body:   {"username":"your username here", "name":"your name here", "password":"your password here" }

**Example Response**

{
"blogs": [],
"username": "registered username",
"name": "registered name",
"numberOfBlogs": 0,
"id": "user id"
}

## with Postman

url:   [$baseUrl]/login/       // https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/login/
Method: POST
Body:   {"username":"your username here", "password":"your password here" }

**Login Response Example**

{
"token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6Im1pbmFzaCIsImlkIjoiNjE0NzZhMjI5Njk2YzgwMDA0ZTlkYTA4IiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyMDcyNTY5fQ._3oz-    NOWHbYYz2jgzJa8j6UNE1PDRBBSlZ6PPEf7n3Q-token example",
"username": "registered username",
"name": "registered name"
}

** NOTE ** The token returned by the server is required for creating or modifying blogs: Authorization Header

url:   [$baseUrl]/blogs/       // https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/
Method: POST
Headers: {
       Authorization: {
              token: bearer [token returned by the server after login]
       }
}

Body:   {"title":"title of the blog or article", "author":"author of the article", "url":"the url to the article being added" }

** Example Response **

{
"comments": [],
"title": "Kotlin coroutines on Android",
"author": "Android Documentation",
"url": "https://developer.android.com/kotlin/coroutines?gclid=Cj0KCQjwv5uKBhD6ARIsAGv9a-zMDmjlqXAswuolui2ZBZf4EA8bC1x8Y1MNFmp2aJClmO5TxCynsosaAvUeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds",
"likes": 0,
"user": "id of the user who added the blog",
"id": "id of the added blog"
}

url:   [$baseUrl]/blogs/:id/comments/       // https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/[id of the blog being commented]/comments/
                                               //  You can use this:  https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/6103e79ce86a480584059197/comments
                                               
Method: POST
Headers: {
       Authorization: {
              token: bearer [token returned by the server after login]
       }
}

Body:   {"content":"your comment on the blog read" }

** Example Response **

{
"comments": [
    {
        "content": "I'll try Stripe in my next project, the API is simple.  👍",
        "id": "6106aab669fa2054340fea6b"
    },
    {
        "content": "nice one!",
        "id": "6106aaca69fa2054340fea6c"
    },
    {                                                         ↙️ newly added comment
        "content": "👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 😲",  
        "id": "61477fb89696c80004e9da0a"
    }
],
"title": "A Stripe API Tutorial With React and Node.js",
"author": " Ignacio Nicolas Aguirre",
"url": "https://betterprogramming.pub/stripe-api-tutorial-with-react-and-node-js-1c8f2020a825",
"likes": 7,
"user": {
    "username": "username",
    "name": "name of blog owner",
    "id": "id of the blog owner"
},
"id": "6103e79ce86a480584059197"
}

 url:   [$baseUrl]/blogs/:id/         //  You can use this:  https://bloglister-app.herokuapp.com/api/blogs/6103e79ce86a480584059197/ 
                                            
                                               
Method: PUT
Headers: {
       Authorization: {
              token: bearer [token returned by the server after login]
       }
}

Body:   {"likes":"number" } e.g  {"likes": 1 }

** Example Response **

{
"comments": [
    "6106aab669fa2054340fea6b",
    "6106aaca69fa2054340fea6c",
    "61477fb89696c80004e9da0a"
],
"title": "A Stripe API Tutorial With React and Node.js",
"author": " Ignacio Nicolas Aguirre",
"url": "https://betterprogramming.pub/stripe-api-tutorial-with-react-and-node-js-1c8f2020a825",
"likes": 3,  ⬅️ **field modified**
"user": "id of blog owner",
"id": "6103e79ce86a480584059197"
}

 url:       [$baseUrl]/blogs/id
 Method:    DELETE
 Authorization: bearer Token

git clone https://github.com/ambeche/part4-blogList.git

##  navigate to project root directory
cd part4-blogList 

## installs project dependencies
npm install  

## create a dot env file

touch .env 

## open the .env file add and save the following content:

PORT=3007
MONGODB_URI=[specify ur MongoDB URI]
ENCODING=[your secrete word for password hashing here]
     
     
## run the server with command: 
npm start