🔄 toShare 🔄

Overview

toShare is an easy-to-use platform that lets people swap items with each other. It's all about helping you find what you need and share what you don't, all while being part of a community that values reusing and sharing.

Features

• Item Listing: Users can add items they wish to share, providing details and availability.
• Booking: Once an item is listed, other users can reserve it for specific periods.
• Requesting Items: Users can also make requests for items they are looking for, which can then be fulfilled by other community members.
• Comments: Each item has a comment section, enabling users to leave reviews or ask questions about the item.

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Technologies Used

Backend

• Spring Boot: Used for creating controllers, services, and repositories, as well as configuring their interactions. It also simplifies the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application.

• PostgreSQL: Serves as the application's database, providing robust, scalable, and well-supported data storage.

• Spring Data JPA: Utilized for object-relational mapping through annotations, simplifying the data access layer. It also provides a way to create repository implementations automatically, allowing for more agile and efficient data manipulation.

Testing

• JUnit: The testing framework used for writing unit tests, ensuring code reliability and quality.

• Mock: Employed in conjunction with MockMvc for testing the MVC layer of the application, allowing for comprehensive web layer testing.

Deployment and Containerization

• Docker: Used for creating images and running containers that house both the database and the application, ensuring a consistent environment.

API Documentation and Testing

• OpenAPI: The openapi.yaml file provides a detailed description of the project's API, facilitating API testing and integration.

• Postman: Includes a collection of tests for validating the application's HTTP-based functionalities, ensuring endpoint reliability and correctness.

Code Efficiency

• Lombok, MapStruct: Utilized to reduce boilerplate code, thereby accelerating development time.

Future Enhancements

• Spring Security: Planned for adding robust authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure the application.

• AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming): Intended for modularizing cross-cutting concerns like logging, security, etc., thereby improving code maintainability and reusability.