📝 Django Blog App

A fully functional Django-based Blog Web Application with role-based access control, JWT authentication, RESTful APIs, blog and comment features, custom signals, management commands, and performance caching.

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🚀 Features

👥 Authentication & User Roles

• JWT token authentication using Djoser
• Role-based access:
  • Admin: Full control
  • Staff: Moderate content
  • User: View, comment, create blog posts
• Login/logout with user popup messages
• Display logged-in username in the navbar

📚 Blog & Comment System

• Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) for blog posts
• Comment system with author name and time
• Scrollable and styled comment section

🔍 Search & Pagination

• Search blogs by title/content
• Paginated blog listing with Bootstrap styling

📡 REST API

• Secure API using Django REST Framework
• Blog listing, creation, update, delete with token protection
• Role-based access to endpoints
• User list endpoint (admin only)

🛠 Custom Management Commands

• create_demo_posts <count>: Generate dummy blogs
• delete_all_posts: Delete all blog posts
• Example: python manage.py create_demo_posts 10

🔔 Signals & Logging

• Logs registration and login actions via custom Django signals

⚡ Performance Optimization

• Implemented view-level and low-level caching to boost performance

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🖥️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Django, DRF, Djoser
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 5
• Auth: JWT + Session Auth
• Database: SQLite (easy switch to PostgreSQL)
• Other: Django Signals, Caching, Custom Commands

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

       git clone https://github.com/yourusername/django-blog-app.git
       cd django-blog-app
   

2. Create virtual environment and install dependencies:

       python -m venv venv
       source venv\Scripts\activate  
       pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Apply migrations:

       python manage.py migrate
   

4. Create Superuser

   python manage.py createsuperuser
   

5. Run Server

   python manage.py runserver
   

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🧪 API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description	Auth
POST	/api/token/	Get access + refresh tokens	❌
GET	/api/blogs/	List all blogs	✅
POST	/api/blogs/	Create a blog	✅
PUT	/api/blogs/<id>/	Update a blog	✅
DELETE	/api/blogs/<id>/	Delete a blog	✅
GET	/api/users/	List all users (admin only)	✅

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💡 Highlights

🎯 Role-Based Access Control

🔐 JWT Authentication with Djoser

🧠 Custom Django Signals

⚙️ Management Commands

🚀 DRF API with Permissions

⚡ View-level Caching