📝 Django Blog API

A fully-featured Blog API built with Django Rest Framework and PostgreSQL, offering JWT-based authentication, role-based permissions, nested comment threading, article tagging, like/dislike functionality, and production deployment on Render.com.

🌐 Live Deployment

• Frontend: Hosted at https://ie-blog.onrender.com
• 🔗 Frontend Repo: https://github.com/l2DWOLF/IE-Blog
• Backend API: https://django-blog-i0ni.onrender.com

🧪 API Demo

• ✅ Browsable API available for easy testing and inspection. You can interact with the browsable API directly via:
• https://django-blog-i0ni.onrender.com/api/

Example request with curl: curl -X POST https://django-blog-i0ni.onrender.com/api/token/
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{"username": "your_username", "password": "your_password"}'

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 JWT Authentication with token rotation and blacklisting
• 👤 Custom User & Profile models
• 🛡️ Role-based permissions: Admins, Moderators, Users
• 🗂️ Articles with Tags, Status (draft, publish, archived)
• 💬 Nested Comments and Replies with status control
• 👍 Like/Dislike system for both articles and comments
• 🧵 Throttling for rate limiting based on action and user role
• 🔎 Search, Filter, and Ordering on articles
• 📦 Seeded database with custom management command
• 🌍 CORS config, Static & Media handling, and Secure Production Setup

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Django, Django REST Framework
• Auth: JWT via djangorestframework-simplejwt
• Database: PostgreSQL (via Render)
• Dev Tools: Whitenoise, Django Filters, Taggit, CORS Headers
• Deployment: Render.com

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📁 Project Structure Highlights

├── blog/
│   ├── models.py              # CustomUser, Article, Comment, Like models
│   ├── views.py               # ViewSets for Auth, Articles, Comments, Likes
│   ├── serializers.py         # JWT + Nested Serializers
│   ├── permissions.py         # Role-based & ownership permissions
│   ├── throttling.py          # Custom throttles
│   ├── urls.py                # API routing
│   ├── management/
│       └── commands/
│           └── seed_db.py     # Seeds DB with articles, users, comments
├── django_blog/
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
├── requirements.txt

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🔐 API Authentication

All endpoints use JWT for authentication. Obtain a token via:

POST /api/token/
{
  "username": "your_username",
  "password": "your_password"
}

Then include the access token in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer <your_access_token>

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.