The service is a Spring boot application ready with the basic fixtures to run your APIs locally. Here are some resources to get you started with Java Spring:
- https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/
- https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot
- https://www.springboottutorial.com/introduction-to-spring-boot-for-beginners
- /src | You guessed it, this folder holds all of the application code.
/main/java/configuration| Hold configuration files that set up beans (resources) definitions that can be used throughout your application at runtime./controller| Holds the controllers exposed by your application. A controller contains the business logic of an application and is the presentation layer of your code (exposes the API endpoints)./model| Contains the POJOs used within the application. Feel free to tweak the existing ones or add your own!/service| Services are contain the executing business logic of our application. It manages the domain model objects (defined in /model) and communicates with other services and data sources (like the data found in /main/resources/data).
/main/resources/application.properties| Hold the application properties for the Spring Boot app (learn more here: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/appendix-application-properties.html)./main/resources/data| Holds the json formatted data you'll need to read and process./test/java| Holds all of the test code for your application.- Tests are a critical component of app development.
- Tests help us confirm our code is working as expected, and can even be used to tell us how to write our code...
- Learn more about Test Driven Development, TDD, here: https://hackernoon.com/introduction-to-test-driven-development-tdd-61a13bc92d92
You will need these installed
- Java (8 or above)
- Maven - To install the dependencies needed for the backend
- NodeJS - To install the components needed to spin up the UI