Microservice Based Coffee Shop application

This project demonstrates microservice applications interacting with one another including a thymeleaf based frontend application.

Project Overview

This Spring Boot Microservice application showcases the following features:

• Setting up individual Spring Boot application that talk to each other.
• (TBD) Dockerizing the microservice applications using GitHub Actions workflow.
• (TBD) Running the application in Docker container.
• (TBD) Usage of RestClient for interaction between different microservice applications.
• (TBD) Publishing of events to RabbitMQ using Outbox Pattern.
• (TBD) Implementation of email notification via mailhog.
• Frontend application based on Thymeleaf rendering
• (TBD) AlpineJS for adding functionality on web page.
• (TBD) Cart functionality for Order placement.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:

• Java Development Kit (JDK) 17 or later
• Apache Maven
• (TBD) Docker client

Project Structure

The project (multi-module maven project) consists of the following applications:

• coffeshop-backend: A Spring boot application that manages the coffees for the application.
• coffeshop-frontend: (End User facing application) A Spring boot web mvc application using Thymeleaf for html rendering and AlpineJS for adding functionality to the html page.

Usage

Once the application is running, you can interact access the application using following endpoint:

• Front end application: http://localhost:8080
• Display products with pagination = http://localhost:8080/products?page=1
• H2 Console: http://localhost:8081/h2

The above endpoint will show the main page for the web application along with Cart in the upper right side.

Happy coding!