TiendaGenerica-Microservicios v3.0.0

Changelog

Added

• Centralized environment configuration using .env.
• .env.example template with required variables and documentation.
• Configurable JVM options through JAVA_OPTS.
• Configurable service ports using environment variables.
• Frontend Nginx configuration for SPA routing support.
• Explicit CORS headers and exposed authorization headers.
• Preflight request cache support (maxAge) for CORS optimization.
• Configurable JPA logging and DDL strategies.
• Improved startup consistency across all services.
• Gateway validation support for OPTIONS requests.

Changed

• Refactored all Spring Boot services to use environment variables instead of hardcoded values.
• Migrated Docker images from eclipse-temurin:17-jdk to lighter 17-jre.
• Updated frontend build image from Node 18 to Node 20.
• Enhanced API Gateway CORS configuration for frontend/backend interoperability.
• Improved JWT and gateway secret management.
• Authentication service security flow simplified and centralized through API Gateway.
• Standardized datasource configuration across all microservices.
• Updated Docker Compose configuration and deployment flow.
• Reduced startup wait time from 240s to 150s.
• Improved Swagger and API documentation accessibility.

Security

• Removed hardcoded secrets from project configuration files.
• Enforced required environment variables for critical services.
• Added proper unauthorized response handling for invalid credentials.
• Restricted allowed CORS headers to explicit secure headers.
• Improved gateway validation filtering logic.
• Centralized CORS handling exclusively at API Gateway level.
• Added authentication and Swagger route bypass handling for filters.

Removed

• Direct secret values from application.properties.
• Redundant CORS configuration inside authentication-service.
• Deprecated env_file references in Docker Compose.
• Unnecessary duplicate security and filter logic.

Result

These improvements provide:

• Better security practices
• Cleaner deployment configuration
• Improved Docker efficiency
• Easier environment portability
• More maintainable infrastructure
• Better frontend/backend integration
• More production-ready microservices architecture

Assets

• Updated source code
• Updated Docker configuration
• Updated environment configuration templates
• Updated deployment setup