Imagine

A Hacker News clone in Java.

Build and Run

1. Make sure JDK 8 and Maven are installed
2. Build: mvn clean package
3. Run: java -jar target/imagine-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
4. Visit the homepage: http://localhost:8080
5. By default, in-memory database is used and random data is initialized.

Based on:

• Spring Boot
• Spring Web MVC
• Spring Data JPA (Hibernate)
• Spring Security
• Thymeleaf 3
• Java 8 (Lambda, Stream, Optional etc)
• Maven
• Redis
• MySQL
• H2 Database (in development environment)
• Docker

Changelog:

2016-10-12:

• Code refraction
• Add Docker deployment scripts

2016-10-09:

• Added CSRF protection
• Fixed several bugs

2016-09-26:

• Replaced Velocity with Thymeleaf
• Replaced Gradle with Maven

TODO:

• Unit testing
• Handle invalid inputs more properly
• Add delete, update function for post and comment

URI design

Post Controller:

• GET /post: get post list, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /post/{id}: get post with id and its comment tree, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /post/new/editor, get the editor to create a new post, return HTML, authenticated
• GET /post/{id}/editor, get the editor to update the post with id, return HTML, authenticated, IN THE FUTURE
• POST /post: create a post, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /post}, authenticated

Comment Controller:

• GET /comment: read comment list, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /comment/{id}: get comment with id, return HTML, permitAll
• POST /comment: create a comment, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /post/{id}}, authenticated

User Controller:

• GET /user: read user list, return HTML, permitAll but hidden
• GET /user/{id}: get user with id, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /user/self: get self, return HTML, authenticated
• POST /user: #, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /#}, permitAll
• POST /user/self: update user self, return HTML, authenticated

Vote Controller:

• POST /post/{id}/point: upvote a post with id, return JSON, authenticated
• POST /comment/{id}/point: upvote a comment with id, return JSON, authenticated
• DELETE /post/{id}/point: downvote a post with id, return JSON, authenticated, IN THE FUTURE
• DELETE /comment/{id}/point: downvote a comment with id, return JSON, authenticated, IN THE FUTURE

Other:

• GET /: get post list, same as /post, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /about: website introduction, return HTML, permitAll
• GET /logout: return {redirect to /post}, permitAll
• GET /#: login page, return HTML, permitAll
• POST /#: login, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /post}, permitAll
• GET /resetpw: reset password page, return HTML, authenticated
• POST /resetpw: reset password, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /user/self}, authenticated
• GET /forgot: forgot password page, return HTML, permitAll
• POST /forgot: forgot password, request FORM or JSON, return {redirect to /}, permitAll

License

GPLv3 Licensed.

Happy hacking!