This is my entry for the Ora coding challenge. It was fun to learn all the new features of the modern Spring stack with gradle. This project is using a number of Spring boot tools to speed up development. I took the opprotunity to learn a new workflow, using VS Code with gradle and CLI tools instead of relying on a full IDE. The last time I worked with Spring was a few years ago on a Spring 2.5 app so I decided to embrace the newer way of working and learn as much as I could about the framework. (a few things have changed since then)

This was developed on a Windows 10 machine

JWT assistance https://auth0.com/blog/securing-spring-boot-with-jwts/

To run the application locally, you will need to have gradle installed and nothing running on port 8080.

1. Install gradle https://gradle.org/install and make sure it is added to your system's Path
2. Open up a command prompt and navigate to folder you would like to download the project into.
3. git clone https://github.com/smiles2424/oraMessaging.git
4. cd ./oraMessaging
5. Run gradle bootRun
6. localhost:8080 will be listening for requests

Fire up Postman or the ole curl and start hammmering away.

I set up a user created on application start for testing. U: samuel P: thelastpasswordyouwouldguess

You're good to go!

Thank you for the opprotunity