sorooshmortazavi / devotel-blog

this is a sample blog with Nestjs framework, firebase role-based authentication, postgress database,

Blog Web Application

This project implements a blog REST-API web application using NestJS with a service oriented architecture.

Key Features

• Monolithic application structure
• CRUD operations for blog posts using Postgres database
• Authentication with Firebase
  • User registration
  • Login functionality in client side
  • passport-firebase strategy authentication
• Blog post creation, viewing, editing and deletion
• Input validation using DTOs
• Error handling with proper HTTP status codes
• Image uploads with Multer
• HTTP request and error logging with Pino
• Role based access control for users and admins

Authentication

Users can register by providing basic profile information like email and name. Registered users are assigned a 'USER' role by default. The role can be updated to 'ADMIN' in the database after registration if elevated permissions are needed.

The login functionality returns a JWT token that should be attached as a Bearer token to authenticate subsequent API requests. An example HTML page is provided in client-example folder to demonstrate getting this token with the Firebase library.

Running Locally

To run this app on your local machine, follow these steps:

1. Install dependencies with pnpm install
2. Configure environment variables in a .env file with database credentials
3. Start the server with pnpm run start:dev

Potential Improvements

While core features were implemented, there is a lot of room for additional features and improvements:

• Migrate to microservices architecture
• Additional CRUD operations for comments, categories etc
• Advanced filtering/search functionality
• Support for tagging posts
• User profiles and account management
• Admin dashboard
• etc