Acebook

This is a java/springboot and react project to be developed on.

It uses:

• maven to build the project
• webpack to bundle the javascript
• thymeleaf to serve index.html
• react to make requests to the api and render the component views
• flyway to manage postgres db migrations

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Design

This app has a somewhat typical API structure: in this case a springboot API serving data which a react frontend consumes.

IMPORTANT: Test your understanding by diagramming the request/response cycles that occur when you load the app by visiting localhost:8080

Learning Plan

This project will ultimately be really rewarding if you follow these three points:

1. Work as a team. Don't be tempted to split up to learn solo. At the very least pair on learning, and share knowledge as a team.
2. As a team, plan your learning. There's a ton of new things in this project, purposefully so. That's ok. As always with everything, take it slowly & in small steps: ask a coach if you want more ideas how to plan your team learning.
3. As an individual, plan your learning. Use Diode to keep yourself focused on setting and achieving your learning goals.

QuickStart Instructions

• Fork and clone this repository to your machine

• Use an IDE, like intellij, and select the project directory to load into the editor (you may need to set the source folder in the project settings)

• From the command line create a dev database createdb acebook_springboot_development

• Install Maven brew install maven

• Build the app and start the server, using the Maven command mvn spring-boot:run

• Visit localhost:8080

• Temporarily, if you want to add some posts you can use curl to post data to the API and then refresh the page.

curl -X POST 'localhost:8080/api/posts' -d '{"content": "Hi, Folks!"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

(At some point a form would be implemented sends data to the API)

Database

Flyway is being used to manage your database migrations. Use the flyway docs to become familiar how to migrate your data.

Deployment

• This template application is hosted on heroku at https://springboot-react-template.herokuapp.com/
• Have a look at application.properties, application-dev.properties and application-prod.properties
• The first line in application.properties specifies that the application is run using the config in application-dev.properties.
• The config in application-dev.properties specifies that the development datebase be used.
• This ensures that you do not manipulate the production database whilst developing new features.
• Before deploying your application, you'll need to add some config to application-prod.properties so that the deployed application uses the production database.
• Then, make sure the deployed app will use application-prod.properties by using spring.profiles.active=dev in your deployment script.

CI

• to be configured