Places is a web application backed by the power, performance, and simplicity of MariaDB, allows you to record all of your favorite locations using both structured (relational) and semi-structured (JSON) data!

This application is made of two parts:

• Client
  • web UI that communicates with REST endpoints available through an API app (see below).
  • is a React.js project located in the client folder.
• API
  • uses MariaDB Connector/J (JDBC) with Spring (Spring Boot and Data) to connect to MariaDB.
  • is a Java (Maven-based) project located in the api folder.

This README will walk you through the steps for getting the Places web application up and running using MariaDB.

1. Requirements
2. Getting started with MariaDB and JSON
3. Get the code
4. Configure, build and run the apps
   1. Configure
   2. Build and run the API app
   3. Build and run the Client app
5. JSON Data Models
6. Support and contribution
7. License

This sample application requires the following to be installed/enabled on your machine:

• Java 8+
• Maven v.3+
• Node.js (v. 12+) (for the Client/UI app)
• NPM (v. 6+) (for the Client/UI app)
• MariaDB command-line client (optional), used to connect to MariaDB database instances.

Set up a MariaDB database, loaded with the data this sample needs, using the MariaDB JSON Quickstart, before continuing to the next step.

First, use git (through CLI or a client) to retrieve the code using git clone: Ts

$ git clone https://github.com/mariadb-developers/places-app-nodejs.git

Next, because this repo uses a git submodule, you will need to pull the client application using:

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

This application is made of two parts:

• Client
  • web UI that communicates with REST endpoints available through an API app (see below).
  • is a React.js project located in the client folder.
• API
  • uses MariaDB Connector/J (JDBC) with Spring (Spring Boot and Data) to connect to MariaDB.
  • is a Java (Maven-based) project located in the api folder.

The following steps, a through c, will walk you through the process of configuring, building and running the api and client applications.

Configure the MariaDB connection with your connection details in application.properties.

Example implementation:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/places
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=Password123!
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver

Once you have retrieved a copy of the code you're ready to build and run the project! Start by opening a terminal and navigating to the root of the api folder, then...

i. Build the project by executing the following CLI command:

$ mvn package

ii. Run the project by executing the following CLI command:

$ mvn spring-boot:run

Once the API project is running you can now communicate with the exposed endpoints directly (via HTTP requests) or with the application UI, which is contained with the client folder of this repo.

To start the client application follow the instructions here.

Below are samples of the data model per Location Type.

Attraction (A)

{
   "category":"Landmark",
   "lastVisitDate":"11/5/2019"
}

Restuarant (R)

{
   "details":{
      "foodType":"Pizza",
      "menu":"www.giodanos.com/menu"
   },
   "favorites":[
      {
         "description":"Classic Chicago",
         "price":24.99
      },
      {
         "description":"Salad",
         "price":9.99
      }
   ]
}

Sports Venue (S)

{
   "details":{
      "yearOpened":1994,
      "capacity":23500
   },
   "events":[
      {
         "date":"10/18/2019",
         "description":"Bulls vs Celtics"
      },
      {
         "date":"10/21/2019",
         "description":"Bulls vs Lakers"
      },
      {
         "date":"11/5/2019",
         "description":"Bulls vs Bucks"
      },
      {
         "date":"11/5/2019",
         "description":"Blackhawks vs Blues"
      }
   ]
}

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