Spring Boot Starter

A highly opinionated and complete starter for Spring Boot production ready projects.

Running Instance on Heroku

https://spring-boot-starter.ericopoku.com/

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Built With

• Spring Boot 3.5.7 - Inversion of Control Framework
• Bootstrap 5 - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework
• Thymeleaf - Modern server-side Java template engine
• Gradle - Dependency Management and Build Tool
• Lombok - Automatically plugs into your editor and build tools, spicing up your java.
• AWS - On-demand cloud computing platforms
• H2 - In-Memory Database for development
• Liquibase - Rapidly manage database schema changes.
• Spotless - Spotless is a general-purpose formatting plugin.
• Hibernate Envers - Detailed Auditing of CRUD operations.
• Spring Security
• Java Mail Sender
• Spring Configuration Processor
• Rest Repositories
• Spring Boot Actuator
• Spring Data JPA
• Validation
• Spring Boot DevTools
• Spring Data Jpa DataTables
• Test Containers

Features

• Form and Rest Api Authentication based
• JWT Access and Refresh Tokens Support
• DataTables with Spring Data JPA
• OpenApi3 Swagger
• Form Validation
• Last Successful Login
• New Relic Integration
• Bruteforce Attack Prevention using Failed Login Attempts
• Unit and Integration Tests
• API Login Controller
• Advanced CORS Configuration
• Fully Covered Equals, HashCode, ToString Testing
• Amazon S3 Implementation
• Local AmazonS3 Integration Tests with S3Mock
• Production Ready Folder Structure
• Authentication and Authorization with JWT
• Email Service with HTML and attachment support
• Security Configuration Without WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter

Sample ongoing project using this template

• Used as the API module along with NextJS and AngularJS for Upsidle: An E-Commerce Application

Entity Relational Diagram (ERD)

Production Ready Folder Structure

.
├── config                            # Can hold project level configurations like pmd, checkstyle, etc.
├── documents                         # Holds project documentations. Markdown sections, etc.
│   └── images
├── libs                              # Holds special libraries used by the application.
│   └── newrelic
└── src
    ├── integrationTest               # Integration test suites separated from unit tests.
    │   ├── java
    │   │   └── com
    │   │       └── developersboard
    │   │           ├── backend
    │   │           ├── task
    │   │           └── web
    │   └── resources
    ├── main
    │   ├── java
    │   │   └── com
    │   │       └── developersboard
    │   │           ├── annotation     # All custom annotations used in the application
    │   │           ├── backend        # Business Logic and Data Access implementation
    │   │           ├── config         # Configuration classes and properties
    │   │           ├── constant       # Constants used in the application
    │   │           ├── enums          # Enums used in the application
    │   │           ├── exception      # Custom exceptions used in the application
    │   │           ├── shared         # Resources like dto, utils, etc. used in the application
    │   │           ├── task           # Scheduled tasks and cron jobs used in the application
    │   │           └── web            # Web layer implementation
    │   ├── resources
    │   │   ├── i18n                   # I18n property files, comes with 'en', 'fr', 'es' and 'zn_CN'
    │   │   ├── static
    │   │   │   ├── css
    │   │   │   ├── fonts
    │   │   │   ├── images
    │   │   │   └── js
    │   │   │       └── form-validation
    │   │   └── templates
    │   │       ├── common
    │   │       │   └── email
    │   │       ├── email
    │   │       ├── error
    │   │       └── user
    │   └── scripts                     # Scripts used in the application as part of docker build, etc.
    └── test
        ├── java
        │   └── com
        │       └── developersboard
        │           ├── backend
        │           ├── config
        │           ├── shared
        │           └── web
        └── resources

Configuration properties required to deploy to Heroku:

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Credit

TBD

Authors

• Eric Opoku - Initial work
• George Anguah - Initial work
• Matthew Puentes - Initial work
• Stephen Boakye - Contributor
• Charles Dimbeng - Contributor
• Simon Kodua - Contributor

Acknowledgments

• To Support
• To learn
• etc

Notes

• The following environment variables can be customized as necessary.:

• The defaults are:

  ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
  ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
  ENCRYPTION_SECRET_SALT=salt
  ENCRYPTION_SECRET_PASSWORD=password
  JWT_SECRET=salt
  SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=dev
  ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_IN_MINUTES=5
  

• The AWS Properties and defaults are:

  AWS_REGION=us-east-1
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
  AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME=spring-boot-starter
  

• The Email Properties and defaults are:

  EMAIL_PROTOCOL=smtp
  EMAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
  EMAIL_PORT=587
  EMAIL_USERNAME
  EMAIL_PASSWORD # If using gmail, this must be a 2 step verification enabled app password
  

• The profiles defined in the application are development, test, integration-test, integration-test-ci, and production to test out production functionalities.

  • Datasource must be provided for production profile for the application to run.

NB: Windows users must use gradlew instead of ./gradlew**

• Start Spring Boot application using on linux/unix - ./gradlew bootRun
• Run unit tests using - ./gradlew test
• Run integration tests using - ./gradlew integrationTest
• Run all tests using - ./gradlew testAll *
• Access application on http://localhost:8080/
• Access in-memory database on http://localhost:8080/console
• Run owasp dependency check - ./gradlew dependencyCheckAnalyze --info
• Access Swagger UI - http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html

Running on Docker (Assuming docker is installed)

• in the directory where docker-compose.yml file resides, simply run the command - docker-compose up

Stop running application on Docker

• in the directory where docker-compose.yml file resides, simply run the command - docker-compose down