Java Spring Boot Blog

A simple blog application example project made with Spring Boot for Codeup students.

• Implementing Materialize CSS Framework
• Spring Boot 2.1.x
• Hibernate ORM + JPA
• Thymeleaf
• MySQL

Libraries and Utilities Applied

• FullCalendar.js link
• Moments.js link
• jQuery link
• WebSockets
• Joda Time link
• User Icon Generator link

First steps

1. Clone this repo locally.
2. Create an application.properties file with valid credentials for a MySQL connection, use the application.properties.example as a template.
3. Add any API keys needed to test the full functionality.
4. If you want to use the seeder file leave the seed.db=true property, change it to: seed.db=false or any value that makes sense to you when you don't want to seed the database.

Some General Examples

In this project you will find some examples for:

• A complex JPA joinTable relationship where users can send FriendRequests between them and each one has a status to check if it's been sent, approved or rejected. See JPA model here
• A small Enum class that contains a list of friendship statues. See model here