Medium Blog

This project is a blog website similar to Medium, built with React for the frontend and Cloudflare Workers for the backend, using TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and JWT for authentication.

Table of Contents

• Technologies Used
• Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Setting Up Environment Variables
• Running Locally

Technologies Used

• Frontend:

  • React
  • Zod (validation library)
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind (for styling)
  • React Icons
  • React Toastify

• Backend:

  • Cloudflare Workers
  • TypeScript
  • Prisma (ORM with connection pooling)
  • PostgreSQL (as the database)
  • JWT (for authentication)

Features

• User authentication using JWT
• CRUD operations for blog posts
• Real-time updates using Cloudflare Workers
• Validation of Backend types using Zod

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v14 or higher)
• PostgreSQL database

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Piyush5784/Medium=blog.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd Frontend

3.Install dependencies:

npm i

or

yarn install

4.Set up environment variables:
Create a .env file in the root directory with the following environment variables:

DATABASE_URL=your_postgres_database_url
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret

Running Locally

Start the development server:

npm run dev