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A Facebook clone, for a bootcamp challenge, which we developed in two weeks without much prior knowledge of the below technologies.

• maven to build the project
• webpack to bundle the javascript
• thymeleaf to serve index.html
• react to make requests to the api and render the component views
• flyway to manage postgresql db migrations
• junit to test
• java to develop back-end
• spring boot
• intellij text editor for java

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Flyway is being used to manage database migrations. All required SQL files are located in /resources/db/migration

Here's the database schema:

• Signup/Login/Logout
• Password encryption
• Unique Newsfeed for every user
• Add/Remove posts
• Add/Remove comments
• Add/Remove friends (Friend Requests)
• Add/Remove likes
• Timestamped posts & comments

At first, we discussed and agreed on our Minimum Viable Product(MVP) idea. We didn't have much prior knowledge about the required technologies, so our approach was to dedicate first week to learn as much as possible and develop an MVP in the second week. This approach proved to be successful as we managed to deliver the above features in a very short period of time.

Want to see & try our app? Here's how:

• Clone this repo using git clone
• Install Maven brew install maven
• From the command line create a dev database createdb acebook_springboot_development
  (if you're not using postgresql make sure you amend application.properties file to suit your database)
• Build the app and start the server, using the Maven command mvn spring-boot:run
• Visit localhost:8080