Employees & Departments Management System

Full-Stack Spring Boot + React + MySQL + Postman API Collection

🚀 Welcome to the project!

This is a complete, production-ready Employee & Department Management System built with the modern full-stack stack that enterprises can use:
Spring Boot 3 + React 18 + MySQL 8 – clean architecture, secure and testable.

✨ Features :

• Full CRUD operations for Employees and Departments
• One-to-Many / Many-to-One relationship (Employee belongs to one Department)
• RESTful API with proper HTTP status codes and meaningful responses
• Spring Data JPA + Hibernate with custom queries
• Global exception handling & validation (Bean Validation + @ControllerAdvice)
• React frontend with modern hooks (useState, useEffect, custom hooks)
• Responsive UI built with Tailwind CSS / Material UI
• Axios for smooth API calls with interceptors
• Login / Role-based access ready (easily extendable to Spring Security + JWT)
• Complete Postman collection + environment files included (import and run instantly!)
• Clean, layered architecture (Controller → Service → Repository → Entity)
• Comprehensive unit & integration tests JUnit 5
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🛠 Tech Stack in Detail

Backend

• Java 17
• Spring Boot 3.2+
• Spring Data JPA & Hibernate
• Spring Validation
• Lombok
• Maven

Frontend

• React 18 + Vite
• Axios + React Query (or Context API – your choice)
• Tailwind CSS / Bootstrap / Material UI
• React Router v6

Database

• MySQL 8

Testing & Tools

• JUnit 5, Mockito, Spring Test
• Postman Collection
• Docker & docker-compose

🎯 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Java 17+
• Node.js 18+
• MySQL 8
• Maven