Collaborative Concurrent Document Editor

Overview

The Collaborative Concurrent Document Editor is a project consisting of several microservices developed in Spring Boot. It enables multiple users to collaborate on documents concurrently. The project includes services for user authentication, document management, and real-time editing.

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Prerequisites

Before running the application, ensure you have the following installed:

• Maven: Build tool (binary available in the git repository as well).
• Java 21: Required to run the Spring Boot JAR files.
• Docker: For containerization of services.
• Node.js and npm: Needed for running the frontend client.

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Running the Application

Each microservice is built as a separate Spring Boot project in Java. The following commands are used to build and run the services.

Backend (Spring Boot)

• Build and download dependencies:

  mvn clean install

• Compile the project:

  mvn compile

• Run the Spring Boot application:

  mvn spring-boot:run

• Create the JAR file for deployment:

  mvn package

• Run the application from the JAR file:

  java -jar <jarfilename>.jar

• Frontend (React): To run the frontend client, navigate to the frontend project directory and use the following commands:

  • Install required Node modules:

  npm install

  • Run the development server:

  npm run dev