About

Linkzone is a social media app, similar to Reddit, where you can create discussion groups.

Features

• create discussion groups
• subscribe to a group
• add 3 kinds of posts (text/link/image) in a group
• permissions system (group moderators and administrators, global administrators)
• upload group logos, banners, user avatars
• user uploaded content is stored in AWS S3

Tech stack

• backend
  • Java 18
  • MySQL 8
  • AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service)
  • Spring Boot 2.7
  • Spring Security with JSON Web Tokens
  • Spring Data JPA
  • Spring Actuator
  • Spring Rest DOCS
  • Spring Cloud
  • Spring Consul
• frontend
  • Node.js 10
  • Vue.js 2.5
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Local development

1. [Database] Run the database at localhost:3306 - docker-compose up
2. [Backend]
   • Fill out .env.template
   • Install EnvFile IDEA plugin that allows you to set environment variables for your run configurations
   • Configure run configuration
     • enable EnvFile plugin and configure it to set environment from the .env.template file
   • Run the backend at localhost:8080 - run io.eryk.linkzone.Application
3. [Frontend] Run dev server at localhost:3000:

cd frontend
npm install
npm run serve

Preview