Portfolio Website

This is a personal portfolio website built using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, MySQL, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Spring Boot validation, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.

This project is not currently hosted. You can access a static version of the site (without the admin features) at: chaurasia-aditya.github.io

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Features

• Responsive Design: The website is fully responsive and works on different devices.
• Dynamic Content: Projects and other content are fetched from a MySQL database.
• Validation: Form inputs are validated using Spring Boot validation.
• Admin Control: An admin interface is provided to perform CRUD operations on the tables, dynamically affecting the website.
• Rate Limiting: API requests are rate-limited to enhance security and prevent abuse, with separate limits for the homepage and sending messages.
• Styling: Custom CSS and Bootstrap are used for styling.
• Interactive UI: JavaScript is used for dynamic interactions.

Technologies Used

• Backend: Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate
• Database: MySQL
• Validation: Spring Boot validation
• Rate Limiting: Bucket4j
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
• Build Tool: Maven
• Java Version: Java 17 Corretto

Setup

• Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/chaurasia-aditya/spring-portfolio-website.git
  

• Navigate to the project directory:

  cd spring-portfolio-website
  

• Set up the MySQL database:

  • Create a new MySQL database.

  • You can modify and use the SQL scripts provided in the sql-scripts-samples directory to create the necessary database and tables.

  • Update the application.properties file with your database credentials.

    spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/your-database
    spring.datasource.username=your-username
    spring.datasource.password=your-password
    

• Build:

  mvn clean install
  

• Run:

  mvn spring-boot:run
  

Usage

• Access the website by navigating to http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
• Admin control can be accessed from the menu and usedfor performing CRUD operations on the database tables, which dynamically affect the website content.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/YourFeature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/YourFeature).
5. Open a pull request.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following individuals whose videos and templates helped bring this project to fruition:

• Chad Darby: For Spring Boot lectures. Link to Course
• Syed Mohsin: This template helped me develop the front end. Link to Github