Technologies used

• Java 8
• Spring Boot
• Spring Security
• JWT [JSON Web Token]
• Spring Data JPA [Hibernate]
• MYSQL
• Logback
• Thymeleaf
• Maven

System configuration prerequisites to run the application

1. Clone the project

Open terminal and run

git clone https://github.com/hnjaman/social-media.git

In your current directory social-media directory will be created.

2. Install Java and Maven

Install java 8 or higher version and Apache Maven

3. Integrate a MySQL database with the application

Just two table are used here

Note: No need to create any table. It will create by itself when run the application. Just create post database and put its credential in application.properties file

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://locathost/post?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false
spring.datasource.username=username
spring.datasource.password=password

Run the application

cd social-media/
mvn clean install
mvn spring-boot:run

go to your browser, visit http://localhost:8080/home and you will see with all public posts

Home page

Sign up

Login

All users post

Logged user's posts

Make a new post

Edit a post

Logout