Planetarium

A fictional, pseudo-astrophysical Stars and Planets API utilising Java Spring and MySQL

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Requirements / Purpose

This project forms the operational basis of a fictional universe that can be interacted with by users, or "explorers". Star systems, their stars and planets, can be explored and colonised based on a set amount of conditions and resources.

Informally, this project lets me work on fleshing out a complex RESTful Java Spring API and MySQL project as a form of practice.

Tech Stack: Java, Java Spring, MySQL

Build Steps

To get this project running in your local environment, paste this into your terminal:

git clone [email protected]:encodexed/planetarium-backend.git

I recommend running the Java Spring application from its Main thread in your IDE of choice. I used IntellIJ Idea, Postman and MySQLWorkbench as part of my dev environment.

Design Goals / Approach

• Writing a RESTful API that is able to create, read, update and delete star systems, stars and planets
• Applying pseudo-astrophysical constants and "smart" randomisation to the generation of new data
• Exploration of auth and other tricky concepts in the context of a Java Spring project

Known issues

Nothing to worry about, yet.

Feel free to raise an issue if you discover a bug or anything else.

Future Goals

• Continue to add complexity to the project
• Documentation
• Testing
• Connect to a front-end project for a more intuitive UI/UX rather than relying on Postman