Book Social Network 📚

📋 Table of Contents

• 📄 Overview
• ✨ Features
• 🏗️ Microservice Architecture
• 🛠️ Technology Stack
  • Backend
  • Frontend

📄 Overview

Book Social Network is a full-stack application that enables users to manage their book collections and engage with a community of book enthusiasts. This application is built with a microservice architecture to ensure modularity, scalability, and maintainability. It also features real-time notifications powered by WebSockets, allowing users to receive instant updates on activities such as book borrow requests, returns, and feedback. This ensures users stay engaged and informed, creating a dynamic and interactive experience within the book-loving community.

✨ Features

• 📝 User registration and secure email validation
• 📚 Book management: creation, updating, sharing, and archiving
• 🔄 Book borrowing with availability checks
• ✅ Book return functionality and approval of returns
• ⭐ User feedback and reviews
• 🔔 Real-time notifications using WebSocket for updates and interactions
• 🔐 Secure authentication and authorization with JWT tokens
• 🛠️ Adheres to REST API best practices
• 📊 Observability Stack: Integrated with Prometheus for metrics collection, Tempo for distributed tracing, Zipkin for trace collection, Loki for logging, and Grafana for visualization and monitoring.

🏗️ Microservice Architecture

The application consists of the following microservices:

• 🔑 AUTH-SERVER: Manages user authentication and authorization.
• 📚 BOOK-SERVER: Handles all book-related functionalities, including management and availability checks.
• 💬 FEEDBACK-SERVER: Manages user feedback and reviews for books.
• 🕒 TRANSACTIONHISTORY-SERVER: Keeps track of borrowing and return transactions.
• ⚙️ CONFIG-SERVER: Centralized configuration management for all microservices.
• 🌐 GATEWAY-SERVER: Acts as an entry point to the system, routing requests to appropriate microservices.
• 🔍 DISCOVERY-SERVER: Enables service discovery, allowing microservices to locate each other.
• 🔔 NOTIFICATION-SERVER: Provides real-time notifications via WebSocket for user actions, such as borrowing and returning books.

🛠️ Technology Stack

Backend

• ☕ Spring Boot 3
• 🔐 Spring Security 6
• 🔑 JWT Token Authentication
• 🗄️ Spring Data JPA
• 🛡️ JSR-303 and Spring Validation
• 📖 OpenAPI and Swagger UI Documentation
• 🐳 Docker
• ⚙️ GitHub Actions
• 🏢 Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka (Service Discovery)
• 🏗️ Spring Cloud Config (Centralized Configuration)
• 🌉 Spring Cloud Gateway (API Gateway)
• 📊 Spring Cloud Zipkin (Tracing and Monitoring)
• 🏘️ Spring Cloud OpenFeign (Declarative REST Client)
• 💾 MySQL (Database)
• 📡 WebSocket for real-time communication
• 📊 Spring Cloud Zipkin (Tracing and Monitoring)
• 🌀 Tempo (Distributed Tracing)
• 📜 Loki (Log Aggregation)
• 📈 Prometheus (Monitoring and Metrics Collection)
• 📊 Grafana (Data Visualization)

Frontend

• 🌐 Angular 17
• 🎨 Bootstrap for styling
• ⏳ Lazy Loading
• 🔒 Authentication Guard
• 📖 OpenAPI Generator for Angular
• 🔄 rxjs for reactive programming
• 🔌 sockjs-client and stompjs for WebSocket communication