Discuss backend tech stacks

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For our SpringBoot backend, what techs we need to use?

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Spring Boot Backend Dependencies and Features

1. Authentication with JWT

• Library: Spring Security
• Features:
  • Authentication and authorization.
  • JWT support via OAuth2ResourceServer or custom JWT filters.
• Key Use Case: Login, signup, logout functionality.

2. User Management (CRU)

• Library: Spring Data JPA
• Features:
  • Simplifies CRUD operations with repository pattern.
  • Integration with Hibernate for ORM.
  • Validation with javax.validation annotations.

3. CRUD Articles

• Library: Spring Data JPA
• Features:
  • Repository-based CRUD operations for articles.
  • Paginated article lists using Pageable.

4. Comments on Articles (CR-D)

• Library: Spring Data JPA
• Features:
  • One-to-many relationship between articles and comments.
  • Easy create, read, and delete operations.

5. Paginated Articles

• Library: Spring Data JPA
• Features:
  • Use findAll(Pageable pageable) to implement pagination.
  • Supports sorting and custom query pagination.

6. Favoriting Articles

• Library: Spring Data JPA + Spring Security
• Features:
  • Many-to-many relationship between users and articles for favorites.
  • Secured endpoints to manage user-specific data.

7. Follow Other Users

• Library: Spring Data JPA + Spring Security
• Features:
  • Self-referencing many-to-many relationship for user follow/unfollow.
  • Secured endpoints with user-specific access control.

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Additional Tools

• H2 (Development) or PostgreSQL (Production): For database management.
• Lombok: Reduce boilerplate code (e.g., getters, setters, constructors).
• Spring Boot DevTools: Enable hot reloading for faster development.

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Summary of Features

Feature	Dependency	Details
JWT Authentication	Spring Security	Secure login/signup/logout using JWT.
User Management (CRU)	Spring Data JPA	Create, read, update users. Validation with Spring Validator.
Articles (CRUD)	Spring Data JPA	Manage articles with pagination and sorting support.
Comments (CR-D)	Spring Data JPA	Add, read, and delete comments on articles.
Favorites	Spring Data JPA	Many-to-many relationship for user favorites.
Follow Users	Spring Data JPA	Self-referencing many-to-many for follow/unfollow.