SpringBlog is a very simple and clean-design blog system implemented with Spring Boot. It's one of my learning projects to explore awesome features in Spring Boot web programming. I had put it on production for my personal blog site https://raysmond.com for about one year. Now, I turn to Hexo for my blog site.

There's no demo online. Here's the screenshot of my previous blog homepage.

SpringBlog is powered by many powerful frameworks and third-party projects:

• Spring Boot and many of Spring familiy (e.g. Spring MVC, Spring JPA, Spring Secruity and etc)
• Hibernate + MySQL
• HikariCP - A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool
• Bootstrap - A very popular and responsive front-end framework
• Pegdown - A pure-java markdown processor
• ACE Editor - A high performance code editor which I use to write posts and code.
• Pygments - A python library for highlighting code syntax
• Jade4j - Jade is an elegant template language.
• Webjars - A client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files. A easy way to manage JavaScript and CSS vendors in Gradle.
• Redis - A very powerful in-memory data cache server.

Before development, please install the following service software:

• MySQL
• Redis
• Pygments

Edit the spring config profile src/main/resources/application.yml according to your settings.

And start MySQL and Redis first before running the application.

# If you're using Ubuntu server

# Install MySQL
apt-get install mysql-server
service mysql start
mysql -u root -p
>> create database spring_blog;


# Install Python pygments
apt-get install python-pip
pip install pygments

# If you want to enable redis cache
# Install redis server first, you can find instructions
# from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-redis
service redis_6379 start

This is a Gradle project. Make sure Gradle is installed in your machine. Try gradle -v command. Otherwise install in from http://www.gradle.org/. I recommend you import the source code into Intellij IDE to edit the code.

# Start the web application
./gradlew bootRun

How to import the project into Intellij IDEA and run from the IDE?

1. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/Raysmond/SpringBlog.git
2. Download all dependencies cd SpringBlog ./gradlew idea
3. Open the project in Intellij IDEA.
4. Run Application.java as Java application.
5. Preview: http://localhost:9000 Admin: http://localhost:900/admin , the default admin account is: admin@admin.com, password: admin

Lombok is required to run the project. You can install the plugin in Intellij IDEA. Reference: https://github.com/mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin

• Build application jar ./gradlew build, then upload the distribution jar (e.g. build/libs/SpringBlog-0.1.jar) to your remote server.

• Upload application-production.yml to your server and change it according to your server settings.

• Run it (Java8 is a must)

  # assuming you have the jar and yml files under current dir
  java -jar SpringBlog-0.1.jar --spring.config.location=application-production.yml
  

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