📸 Full-Stack Social Media App – Backend (Spring Boot)

A powerful and scalable Java Spring Boot backend for a full-featured social media application. This repo provides RESTful APIs to support authentication, post management, user interaction, and real-time engagement features.

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🚀 Tech Stack

• Java Spring Boot
• Spring Security + JWT (Authentication)
• PostgreSQL (Database)
• REST APIs
• Spring Data JPA / Spring Web

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🎯 Project Goals

To build a robust backend infrastructure that handles all core features of a modern social media app including user authentication, post operations, interactions (like/comments), and user relationships (follow/unfollow).

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⚙️ Features & APIs

🔐 Authentication & Authorization

• User registration and login
• JWT-based secure session management

📸 Post Management

• Create, update, and delete posts (image + caption)
• Retrieve all posts or posts by a specific user
• Pagination and feed ordering supported (WORKING ON IT)

❤️ Likes & Comments

• Like/unlike posts
• Add, fetch, and delete threaded comments(WORKING ON IT)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Follow System

• Follow and unfollow users
• View followers and following lists

🔍 User Profiles & Search

• Get user profile (bio, post count, follow stats)
• Search users by name or username

📡 Real-Time Messaging (WORKING ON IT)

• API endpoints for chat/message initialization
• WebSocket or polling integration ready

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📚 Learning Highlights

• Hands-on experience with Spring Security, JWT, and API design
• Implemented scalable relational & NoSQL data models
• Built clean and maintainable service layers and DTOs
• Mastered backend development patterns with Java + Spring Boot

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📁 Frontend Repo

Frontend built with React.js + Redux available here