Recent Changes

Upgrading old dependencies to newest versions.

Spring Portfolio Starter

• Runtime link: https://spring2025.nighthawkcodingsociety.com/
• JWT Login: https://nighthawkcoders.github.io/APCSA/data/login
• Jokes endpoint: https://spring.nighthawkcodingsociety.com/api/jokes/

Visual thoughts

• Starter code should be fun and practical
• Organize with Bootstrap menu
• Add some color and fun through VANTA Visuals (, halo, solar, net)
• Show some practical and fun links (hrefs) like Twitter, Git, Youtube
• Show student project specific links (hrefs) per page
• Show student About me pages

Getting started

• Clone project and open in VSCode
• Verify Project Structure to use a good Java JDK (adoptopenjdk:17)
• Play or entry point is Main.java, look for Run option in code. This eanbles Spring to load
• Java source (src/main/java/...) has Java files. Find "controllers" path, these files enable HTTP route and HTML file relationship.
• HTML source (src/main/resources/...) had templates and supporting files. Find index.html as this file is launched by defaul in Spring. Other HTML files are loaded by building an "@Controller"

IDE management

• A ".gitignore" can teach a Developer a lot about Java runtime. A target directory is created when you press play button, byte code is generated and files are moved into this location.
• "pom.xml" file can teach you a lot about Java dependencies. This is similar to "requirements.txt" file in Python. It manages packages and dependencies.

.env files

• In order to run this project locally, a .env file should be set up with the approprate variables:
• GAMIFY_API_URL
• GAMIFY_API_KEY