01Blog – Social Blogging Platform for Students

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Features
• Technologies Used
• Installation & Running

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Overview

01Blog is a social blogging platform where students can document their learning journey, share posts, interact with peers, and engage in meaningful discussions. Admins can manage users, posts, and reports to maintain a safe environment.

This fullstack project uses Java Spring Boot for the backend and Angular for the frontend, with a SQL database and optional Docker containerization.

Features

Backend

• Authentication & Security
  • Registration, login, and secure password handling
  • Role-based access (User/Admin)
• User Blocks
  • Public profiles with posts
  • Subscribe/unsubscribe to users
  • Notifications for new posts
• Posts
  • CRUD posts with text and media (images/videos)
  • Likes and comments
• Reporting
  • Report inappropriate content
  • Admin-only visibility for reports
• Admin Panel
  • Manage users, posts, and reports
  • Ban/delete users or posts
  • Protected routes via access control

Frontend

• Responsive UI (Angular Material / Bootstrap)
• Homepage feed and personal block pages
• Post interactions: like, comment, upload media
• Notifications system
• Reporting via UI modal
• Admin dashboard for moderation tasks

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Technologies Used

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST API
• Frontend: Angular, Angular Material / Bootstrap
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Containerization: Docker
• Other: JWT, cloud storage for media

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Installation & Running

DataBase

cd postgres
docker compose up

Backend

cd backend
./mvnw spring-boot:run

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
ng serve