📝 Blog Platform API

🧪 API Testing (Postman)

All APIs are tested and documented using Postman.

📌 Postman Collection Link: 👉 https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/44813629/2sB3dWr6v4

A modern, stateless blog backend built with Spring Boot 3, JWT-based authentication, Spring Security, and Dockerized PostgreSQL.
This service provides secure user login, post management, categories, tags, and more.

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🚀 Features

🔐 Authentication

• User login with JWT tokens
• Stateless sessions with Spring Security
• Custom JwtAuthenticationFilter for token validation
• Password hashing using PasswordEncoder

🗂 Blog Features

• Public API for viewing posts, categories, tags
• Protected endpoints for creating, editing, and deleting posts (requires JWT)

🛢 Database

• PostgreSQL 15 running inside Docker
• Automatically managed schema with JPA + Hibernate
• Clean migration model

🧱 Architecture

• Controller → Service → Repository pattern
• DTO-based request/response
• Custom UserDetails & UserDetailsService
• Token generation, validation, and parsing

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