🌱 SpringCrate

A treasure box of structured Spring Framework projects.

This repository contains a curated collection of practical and production-ready projects built using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and more.

📦 About SpringCrate

SpringCrate is designed as a learning and reference hub for developers who want to master the Spring ecosystem. Whether you're preparing for interviews, building enterprise-grade applications, or learning Spring for the first time — this repository provides clean, modular, and understandable codebases to guide your journey.

🔧 Technologies Used

• ☕ Java

• 🛩 Spring Core

• 🌱 Spring Boot

• 🖥️ Spring MVC

• 💾 Spring Data JPA

• 🔐 Spring Security

• 🧪 JUnit & Mockito (where applicable)

• 🗃️ MySQL / PostgreSQL

• ⚙️ Maven / Gradle

• 🧰 RESTful APIs
  
  

📁 Repository Structure

SpringCore/
│
├── springxmlbasedapp/
│   └── Creating spring application using XML based configuration.
│
├── user-management-app/
│   └── CRUD operations with Spring Boot, MVC, JPA.
│
├── spring-security-auth/
│   └── JWT-based Authentication & Authorization.
│
├── product-catalog-api/
│   └── RESTful API with custom exception handling and validation.
│
├── todo-manager/
│   └── A simple task manager app with Thymeleaf frontend.
│
├── etc...
│
├── README.md

Each project includes detailed documentation, instructions, and sample data where necessary.

🚀 Features

• ✅ Well-structured and modular code.

• 🔄 Real-world use cases with complete CRUD functionality.

• 🧩 Follows best practices of Spring ecosystem.

• 🛡️ Includes projects with authentication and security layers.

• 📊 Uses SQL databases with proper schema design.

• 📂 Organized into independent mini-projects for focused learning.
  
  

📚 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/SpringCrate.git
cd SpringCrate

2. Choose a project folder and import it in your IDE (IntelliJ / Eclipse).

3. Configure the database connection in application.properties or application.yml.

4. Build and run:

./mvnw spring-boot:run

🎯 Use Cases

• Spring Boot interview preparation.

• Backend development practice.

• REST API design and implementation.

• Authentication and authorization using Spring Security.

• Learning Spring Data JPA with real-world examples.
  
  

🙌 Contributions

Contributions, suggestions, and improvements are welcome!
Feel free to fork this repository, create a new project, or enhance the existing ones.

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