Polyglot Blog Application

Overview

This full-stack blog application supports CRUD operations for blog posts, which can be written and rendered in Markdown. It also features a summarization capability powered by Python through MetaCall, offering a variety of AI services to choose from.

Features

1. 📝 Create, edit, and delete blog posts
2. 🔍 Retrieve blog posts via REST APIs
3. 📄 Write and render blog posts in Markdown
4. 🤖 AI-Powered Summarization (via Python & MetaCall)
5. ⚡ Supports multiple AI services for summarization (e.g., Gemini, Hugging Face, Claude, OpenAI, etc.)

Requirements

Ensure you have the following installed before running the application:

1. Nodejs
2. Metacall CLI

Environment Configuration

Before running the project, navigate to the server directory, rename .env.example to .env, and add your configurations like:

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
PORT=4000

HUGGING_FACE_KEY=your_api_key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key
GEMINI_KEY=your_api_key
EDEN_Authorization=your_api_key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_api_key
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=your_api_key

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/mohyware/polyglot-blog

2. Install MetaCall CLI (More Info):

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metacall/install/master/install.sh | sh

3. Backend (Server) Setup

cd server
metacall npm install
metacall pip3 install dotenv huggingface_hub openai anthropic genai

4. Frontend (Client) Setup

cd client
npm install

Usage

1. Start the Backend Server

cd server
npm run dev  # Start development mode
# OR
npm start    # Run production mode

2. Start the Frontend Client

cd client
npm run dev  # Start development mode
# OR
npm run build  # Build the project before running start
npm start      # Run production mode

3. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000

Run tests

You can run tests by executing the following command:

cd client
npm run test

cd server
npm run test