Gradle & Spring Boot

Gradle is the open source build system of choice for Java, Android, and Kotlin developers.

Installation

Follow these steps to install Gradle or use the sdkMAN command

sdk install gradle

User login and registration

I used this video and this GitHub repository as a tutorial on how to implement user login and registration.

Dependencies used in Spring Boot Initializer:

• Spring Web to enable web application development
• Spring Data JPA aka Java Persistence API, to simplify database interactions using JPA
• MySQL Driver which is needed to connect the project to a MySQL database.

Rest API w/ SpringBoot and Gradle | CRUD REST API

I used this video to initialize the API for my User-class, and I checked that it worked with the Postman API platform. I also used this video series as a guide.

Dependencies

• Node.js, a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
• Node Version Manager (nvm), to manage node.js versions
• MySQL as a database (I have two listed, so I might have to look into that later)

Poll-class

I used this video series and this gitHub repository to create the Poll-class and connect my user- and polls-class to the MySQL database.

There is definitely some bugs in my implementation of the Poll- and VoteOption-classes, but I am working on them. As of now, I can POST, GET, GET by id, and DELETE polls, but I am still figuring out how to implement PUT so that I can update the polls.

Single-Page Application

I used the video series REACT JS TUTORIAL (click on 'From the series' on the top right-hand side to view all videoes in the series), more specifically this video to implement single-page rendering in the front-end part for my project.