📝 Blogbrew - A Full-Stack Blog Application

Blogbrew is a full-stack blog platform built with Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, TailwindCSS, and deployed on AWS.
It allows users to register, sign in, create, edit, and publish blog posts. Visitors can browse and read public blog content.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ User authentication with email & password
• ✅ Create, edit, delete blogs (only for authors)
• ✅ Public listing and detail view for blogs
• ✅ Pagination for blog list
• ✅ Responsive UI (Mobile & Desktop)
• ✅ Secure access with Spring Security
• ✅ Hosted on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk)

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🖥️ Tech Stack

Frontend	Backend	Deployment
HTML + TailwindCSS + Thymeleaf	Spring Boot (Java), Spring Security, Spring Data JPA	AWS (Elastic Beanstalk)
	MySQL (RDS)

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🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Java 21
• Maven
• MySQL (or use your own DB)
• AWS account (for deployment)

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/sandeepswain12/BlogBrew.git
cd BlogBrew

⚙️ Configure the application

Edit src/main/resources/application.properties:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://<host>:3306/blogbrew
spring.datasource.username=your-db-username
spring.datasource.password=your-db-password
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update

▶️ Run the project

mvn clean install
mvn spring-boot:run

Access the app at:
👉 http://localhost:8085

🌐 Live Demo ✅ Hosted on AWS: 🔗 www.blogbrew.xyz

📁 Folder Structure

BlogBrew/
├── src/
│   ├── main/
│   │   ├── java/com/blogbrew/...
│   │   └── resources/
│   │       ├── templates/
│   │       ├── static/
│   │       └── application.properties
├── pom.xml
└── README.md

🧠 Author Made with ❤️ by Sandeep Kumar Swain

📧 Email: sandeepswain027@gmail.com

🔗 LinkedIn: sandeep-kumar-swain-778b40237