/scholarx

The backend of the ScholarX project

Primary LanguageJavaMIT LicenseMIT

ScholarX - backend application and auth server

Backend of the ScholarX project

Setting up the project for development

Prerequisites

  • Java
  • Maven
  • MySQL
  • Linkedin Social Login App
  • Gmail Account with an App Password

Setup Linkedin Social Login App

  1. Create a new Linkedin App (help?)
  2. Click on Auth tab and add http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/linkedin as an authorised redirect URL
  3. Make Sure you have properly added the Sign in with Linkedin product under products tab

Setup a gmail account with an app password

  1. Create a new gmail account if you don't have one already
  2. Enable Two Factor Authorisation
  3. Generate a new App Password (help?)

Steps

  1. Fork and clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/<your profile name>/scholarx
  1. Open the cloned repo, Find and open the application.yml file
  2. Replace the client-id and client-secret with the values from the above linkedin social app

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4. Replace the mail username and password values with the generated `App Password` and the corresponding gmail address

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5. Replace the datasource dummy values with your local mysql server instance credentials

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6. Run the application 
mvn spring-boot:run