Portfolio Website

This is a personal portfolio website built using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, MySQL, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Spring Boot validation, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.

This project is not currently hosted. You can access a static version of the site (without the admin features) at: chaurasia-aditya.github.io

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bab07c1c-1187-4cc6-9d20-63d2e4269a59

Features

Responsive Design: The website is fully responsive and works on different devices.
Dynamic Content: Projects and other content are fetched from a MySQL database.
Validation: Form inputs are validated using Spring Boot validation.
Admin Control: An admin interface is provided to perform CRUD operations on the tables, dynamically affecting the website.
Rate Limiting: API requests are rate-limited to enhance security and prevent abuse, with separate limits for the homepage and sending messages.
Styling: Custom CSS and Bootstrap are used for styling.
Interactive UI: JavaScript is used for dynamic interactions.

Technologies Used

Backend: Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate
Database: MySQL
Validation: Spring Boot validation
Rate Limiting: Bucket4j
Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
Build Tool: Maven
Java Version: Java 17 Corretto

Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/chaurasia-aditya/spring-portfolio-website.git

Navigate to the project directory:
```
cd spring-portfolio-website
```
Set up the MySQL database:
- Create a new MySQL database.
- You can modify and use the SQL scripts provided in the sql-scripts-samples directory to create the necessary database and tables.
  
  Note: If you manually insert users into the user table, the password must be BCrypt-encrypted, since Spring Security will reject plain-text passwords. The sample SQL script provided already includes a BCrypt-hashed password.
  
  To generate your own BCrypt password, you can:
  - Generate one online using a BCrypt generator
  - Or run: new BCryptPasswordEncoder().encode("your-password")
- Update the application.properties file with your database credentials.
```
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/your-database
spring.datasource.username=your-username
spring.datasource.password=your-password
```
Build:
```
mvn clean install
```
Run:
```
mvn spring-boot:run
```

Usage

Access the website by navigating to http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
Admin control can be accessed from the menu and usedfor performing CRUD operations on the database tables, which dynamically affect the website content.

Contributing

Fork the repository.
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/YourFeature).
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/YourFeature).
Open a pull request.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following individuals whose videos and templates helped bring this project to fruition:

Chad Darby: For Spring Boot lectures. Link to Course
Syed Mohsin: This template helped me develop the front end. Link to Github