Redit -Stackoverflow Clone

Ask-Answers is a fullstack Redit - Stackoverflow Clone . this project is useful for learning and experimenting with Spring 5 , Spring Boot ,Spring Security , Thymeleaf and JPA.

The Application is implemented as a Spring Boot app running an embedded version of Tomcat. the data storage is H2 Database which is an in-memory database And MySql Database accessed via Spring JPA.

Built With

• Maven - Dependency Management
• JDK 11 - Java™ Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit
• Spring Boot - Framework to ease the bootstrapping and development of new Spring Applications
• Mysql - Open-Source Relational Database Management System
• git - Free and Open-Source distributed version control system
• Bootstrap - front-end open source toolkit
• thymeleaf - server-side Java template engine
• Spring Security -Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework

External Tools Used

• Postman - API Development Environment (Testing Docmentation)

UI Template

Front End Ui - springit-templates Spring Reddit Clone Layouts & Templates

Database Configuration

Ask-Answer app uses an in-memory database (H2) seeded with a commandLineRunner. The h2 console is automatically exposed at http://localhost:1010/h2-console and it is possible to inspect the content of the database using the jdbc:h2:mem:testdb url.

A similar setup is provided for Mysql in properties file in case a persistent database configuration is needed.

first you need to create a local database[Schema] called askanswer using mysql command Line.

create database askanswer;

Deploying the application to OpenShift or AWS

To deploy the sample application to OpenShift you can use the OpenShift CLI:

oc new-app codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos~https://github.com/Urodacus/ask-answer-app

This will create:

• An ImageStream called "springboot-maven3-centos"
• An ImageStream called "askanswerapp"
• A BuildConfig called "askanswerapp"
• DeploymentConfig called "askanswerapp"
• Service called "askanswerapp"

If you want to access the app from outside your OpenShift installation, you have to expose the askanswerapp service:

oc expose askanswerapp --hostname=www.example.com

To deploy the sample application to AWS or Container

you can check these links :

• Deploying on AWS Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploying a Spring Boot Application - docs

maven

Build Spring Boot Project with Maven mvn install / mvn clean install

run spring boot using maven : mvn spring-boot:run

or load it into your ide then run it.

access it via local host after configuring the port in properties file .

 server.port = <<port number>>

Contributions and Future improvements

In case you find a bug or have a suggested improvement

The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports, features requests and submitting pull requests.

finished

• RESTful Web Service
• Bootstrap - CSS
• Web - Thymeleaf, JavaScript
• Spring Data JPA
• H2
• Spring AOP
• Spring boot Security
• Authentication
• Actuator
• MySql Configuration

sample screenshot of the completed app

Contributions can be made by following these steps:

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request