Penman

Penman is a site to create, read, update and delete blogs. It allows the users to express their thoughts and post it. This project is done as part of my React full stack learning curve.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe

Technology Stack :

React, Nodejs, Expressjs, MySQL, Sequelize

State Management :

UseContext Hook

Features :

Writer can create the blog with two options,
- Text Editor
- Markdown Editor
Seperate public profile page for each user along with their posted blogs.
User can see the posts liked by them in a seperate page.
Authentication is implemented with bcrypt, json web token and sessionStorage.
Additionally, Like and Comment sections are provided.

Working of this project :

Clone this repository in your local machine

git clone https://github.com/subhasree2/Penman.git

Open two terminals each for client and the server in your code editor (Example : VS Code)

Set up Nodejs , Expressjs and mysql in server

  npm install
  npm install express 
  npm install cors
  npm install mysql2
  npm install sequelize sequelize-cli
  npx sequelize init

Start the client
```
 npm start
```
Start the server
```
 npm start
```

Setting up the database :

Create a new schema in MySQL Workbench
Change the username, password and database name in config.json in server

{
  "development": {
    "username": "username",
    "password": "password",
    "database": "schemaName",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  },