Back-end project for SunnyWalk application

Introduction

SunnyWalk is an inovative application that will help you take your daily dose of sunshine by taking a walk.

Features:

• Suggest a walk based on weather conditions
• Track a walk on the map
• View previous walks
• Give feedback on the previous walks

Tech stack

• JAVA as the programming language for the back-end (IntelliJ Idea Community IDE)
• Spring Boot framework for creation of the REST API (project initialized with Spring Initializr)
• MySQL for persistence (MySQL Workbench for working on the database)
• JUnit for testing

Instructions on how to run the project

0. Prerequisites:

• GIT
• JDK 1.8
• Maven (must be visible on windows path)

1. Clone the repository on your PC

git clone https://github.com/CodeBendersTR/sunnywalk-backend.git

2. (Optional) Switch to a specific branch

git checkout BXXXX

3. Make the connection with your database (for security reasons we cannot provide the connection to our database)

• We used in our application.properties Windows evironment variables
• You can replace those variables with your own connection string or set the environment variables accordingly

4. Run the application with Maven

mvn spring-boot:run

5. Test the API at http://localhost:8080

About the team

CodeBenders - because code bends at our will :)

We are a team of four talented people taking part in the Tech Returners programme (March 2021, London). Ciaran (ShyguyCC) Jini (jinirun) Marius (grigorem) Susan (SusanLuebke)