Career Blink [I have Followed the Best practices of Spring Boot in this Project]

Career Blink is a full-stack web application designed to provide a complete placement solution platform for students and professionals. It combines the power of a Spring Boot backend with a dynamic and responsive React.js frontend to offer features such as DSA practice tracking, communication with mentors, and career management tools.

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🚀 Features

✅ Student & Professional Platform

• Register and manage your account
• Track your DSA practice progress
• Access curated questions and mark them as solved
• View performance analytics

✅ DSA Tracker (Backend-Driven)

• Mark questions as solved/unsolved
• Filter and search DSA questions by topic, difficulty, or pattern
• Efficient API with JWT-based authentication

✅ Role-Based Access (Planned)

• Separate dashboards for students, mentors, and admins

✅ Notifications & Communication (Upcoming)

• Real-time alerts from mentors/admins
• Chat or message functionality

✅ Tech Stack

🔧 Backend

• Java 21
• Spring Boot 3+
• Spring Security (JWT Authentication)
• JPA + MySQL

🎨 Frontend

• React.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Axios for API calls

☁️ Deployment (Planned)

• Docker support
• CI/CD integration
• Cloud (Render/Netlify/Heroku/AWS)

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📁 Folder Structure

Career-Blink/
├── client/               # React.js Frontend
│   ├── src/
│   └── ...
├── server/               # Spring Boot Backend
│   ├── src/
│   ├── pom.xml
│   └── ...
└── .gitattributes        # For GitHub language stats

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⚙️ Getting Started

Backend Setup (Spring Boot)

cd server
./mvnw spring-boot:run

Frontend Setup (React.js)

cd client
npm install
npm start

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🧠 Learnings & Best Practices

• JWT-based authentication in Spring Boot
• RESTful API design with Spring Controllers
• State management in React
• Axios interceptors with token
• React + Tailwind responsive design

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🤝 Contributing

This project is under active development. Contributions are welcome!

• Fork the repo
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/yourFeature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add new feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin feature/yourFeature)
• Open a pull request

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📜 License

MIT License

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🙋‍♂️ Author

Harshit Varshney Connect on LinkedIn Explore more projects on GitHub

"Career Blink isn't just a project — it's a mission to empower learners and job seekers with smart tech." I have followed the best practices of Spring Boot