Voyager Blog is a web application designed to provide a platform for users to share and read blog posts. This project is built using React for the frontend and a RESTful API for the backend.

• User authentication and authorization
• Create, read and update blog posts
• View top users and their posts
• Responsive design

• React
• Material-UI
• Notistack for notifications
• RESTful API
• Node.js (for backend)
• Express (for backend)
• MongoDB (for database)

• Node.js
• npm (Node Package Manager)

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Frnn4268/voyager-blog.git

2. Navigate to the project directory (Backend):

   cd .\api
   npm install

3. Navigate to the project directory (Backend):

   cd .\client
   npm install

1. Start the backend server:
2. Start the frontend development server:

Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following environment variables:

1. Backend:

   PORT=<your_port>

   MONGODB_URI=<your_mongo_url>

   JWT_SECRET=<your_secret>

2. Frontend:

   REACT_APP_API_URL=<your_api_url>

   REACT_APP_API_UPLOAD=<your_api_url>

Replace <your_api_url> with the URL of your backend API.

• Register or log in to your account.
• Create new blog posts or edit your existing posts.
• View posts from other users.
• Check out the top users on the platform.