mastermind1981/springblog

A simple blogging system implemented with Spring Boot/MVC/JPA + Hibernate + MySQL + Redis + Bootstrap + Jade. Source code for my personal website.

SpringBlog

SpringBlog is a very simple and clean-design blog system implemented with Spring Boot. It's one of my learning projects to explore awesome features in Spring Boot web programming. I've put it on production for my personal blog site https://raysmond.com.

SpringBlog is powered by many powerful frameworks and third-party projects:

• Spring Boot and many of Spring familiy (e.g. Spring MVC, Spring JPA, Spring Secruity and etc)
• Hibernate + MySQL
• HikariCP - A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool
• Bootstrap - A very popular and responsive front-end framework
• Pegdown - A pure-java markdown processor
• ACE Editor - A high performance code editor which I use to write posts and code.
• Pygments - A python library for highlighting code syntax
• Jade4j - Jade is an elegant template language.
• Webjars - A client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files. A easy way to manage JavaScript and CSS vendors in Gradle.
• Redis - A very powerful in-memory data cache server.

Development

Before development, please install the following service software:

• MySQL
• Redis
• Pygments

Edit the spring config profile src/main/resources/application.yml according to your settings.

And start MySQL and Redis first before running the application.

# If you're using Ubuntu server

# Install MySQL
apt-get install mysql-server
service mysql start
mysql -u root -p
>> create database spring_blog;


# Install Python pygments
apt-get install python-pip
pip install pygments

# If you want to enable redis cache
# Install redis server first, you can find instructions
# from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-redis
service redis_6379 start

This is a Gradle project. Make sure Gradle is installed in your machine. Try gradle -v command. Otherwise install in from http://www.gradle.org/. I recommend you import the source code into Intellij IDE to edit the code.

# Start the web application
./gradlew bootRun

Development

How to import the project into Intellij IDEA and run from the IDE?

1. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/Raysmond/SpringBlog.git
2. Download all dependencies cd SpringBlog ./gradlew idea
3. Open the project in Intellij IDEA.
4. Run Application.java as Java application.
5. Preview: http://localhost:9000 Admin: http://localhost:900/admin , the default admin account is: [email protected], password: admin

Lombok is required to run the project. You can install the plugin in Intellij IDEA. Reference: https://github.com/mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin

Deployment

• Build application jar ./gradlew build, then upload the distribution jar (e.g. build/libs/SpringBlog-0.1.jar) to your remote server.

• Upload application-production.yml to your server and change it according to your server settings.

• Run it (Java8 is a must)

  # assuming you have the jar and yml files under current dir
  java -jar SpringBlog-0.1.jar --spring.config.location=application-production.yml
  

License

Modified BSD license. Copyright (c) 2015, Jiankun LEI (Raysmond).