Aksara — Blog & Publishing Platform

Aksara is a full-stack blog platform where readers browse, comment on, and rate articles, while writers manage content through a role-gated dashboard (User/Author/Admin) built around a TipTap rich text editor. The backend enforces XSS-safe HTML sanitization on all user-generated content, HttpOnly refresh-token + short-lived JWT authentication, Redis-backed rate limiting, and OTP email verification, with a BullMQ worker dispatching newsletter emails on every new publish. Designed, built, and security-tested solo end-to-end — including manual XSS, auth-enumeration, and session-handling audits via Postman.