🏥 HealthTracker - Full Stack Application

Welcome to the HealthTracker project! This application is designed to help users track their health and fitness, including meal tracking, water intake, steps taken, and personal AI coach. It consists of a WPF front-end (MVVM architecture) and a Java Spring Boot back-end.

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🔧 Technologies Used

Back-End (Java Spring Boot)

• Java 21
• Spring Boot (v3.4.4)
• Spring Data JPA (for database interaction)
• Lombok (for boilerplate code reduction)
• Jakarta Persistence (JPA) (for ORM-based database interactions)
• SQL Server (for database management, specified schema dbo)
• Spring Security (for user authentication and authorization)

Front-End (WPF - MVVM Architecture)

• C# with WPF
• MVVM Pattern (Model-View-ViewModel)
• XAML (for designing the user interface)
• RelayCommand (for command binding)
• JSON API integration (for communication with the Spring Boot back-end)

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🏁 Getting Started

These instructions will help you set up the project locally and run both the back-end API and the front-end.

Prerequisites

Before running this project, ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

Back-End Requirements

• JDK 21
• Maven (for managing dependencies)
• IDE like IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse
• Postman (or any other API testing tool)
• SQL Server (or your preferred database system)

Front-End Requirements

• Visual Studio (or your preferred C# development environment)
• .NET Core 8.0 (for running WPF applications)

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Clone the repository

Clone the entire project to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/HealthTracker.git

Setup Instructions

To get the HealthTracker project up and running, follow these steps:

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1. Backend Setup

1. Navigate to the Backend Directory
   Open your terminal or command prompt and run:

   cd HealthTracker/backend

2. Install Project Dependencies
   Install the required dependencies using Maven:

   mvn install

3. Set Up the Database

   • Install SQL Server: If you haven't already, install SQL Server.
   • Create the Database: Set up a new database for the project.
   • Configure Database Connection: Open the application.properties file and update the connection settings with your database credentials.

4. Run the Backend Application
   Start the Spring Boot application with:

   mvn spring-boot:run

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2. Frontend Setup

1. Open the Project in Visual Studio
   Launch Visual Studio and open the project folder.

2. Set the API URL
   Open the App.config file and set the correct API URL to point to your running backend application.