Connector

Connector is a Social Network Web Application created as a learning Project.

Here is a sample View of our Home Page after successful authorization:

Getting Started

The App was created according to the MVC (Model-View-Controller) paradigm. Basis of the View component was made using ReactJs.

Deploy the App locally:

• Node Package Manager - Download npm
• Navigate to ~\Spring-Social-Network-Backend\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp\react and run the following commands:

npm install

npm run build

NOTE: Remove plug-in from pom.xml line 165 if you are using NetBeans IDE

• Run the project using your favorite IDE

Features

Project's key features include:

• Unique Profile Page

• Adding/Removing Friends

• Show/Create/Delete Posts based on Users' Friends

• Full-fledged Chat functionality

Here is a sample of our Persisting One-to-One Chat Module: Each User has the option to chat with their friends.

Accessibility and Testing

1. To Log in the App, simply create an account via our Registration Page.
2. Have a look at our test user with the following credentials:
   username -> test@gmail.com
   password -> 1234qwer
3. Have a look at all our registered Users using the Search functionality on the top left, leave the text blank and type enter.
4. Finally, you can preview the admin page as well:
   username- > admin
   password -> 1234qwer

Technology Stack

• MySQL- Database used

• Java 8 - Java version used

• Maven - Dependency Management

• Spring Boot - Back-End Framework used with the following dependencies:

  • Spring Boot DevTools
  • Spring Web MVC
  • Spring Security
  • Spring Data JPA
  • WebSocket

• Tomcat - Application Server used

• JSP - Java Server Pages Technology

• ReactJs - JavaScript Library

Versioning

Git for versioning.
Git Bash - Favorite CLI

Authors

• Gkezeris Giorgos - GitHub LinkedIn
• Plexidas Aris - GitHub LinkedIn
• Korovesis Alexandros - GitHub LinkedIn