Milestone 4 - Elaina Lyons

[elainalyons]

Milestone: 4

Developer: Elaina Lyons

Pull Request Summary

Completed milestone 4 is being submitted for review. POST endpoints were added to complete the blog and portfolio functionality with comments, and email.js was used to complete the Contact Me page.

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[elainalyons]

Forgot to include proof of the email working through the contact me page.