Build Your Own News Reader From Scratch with Spring Boot

Today we have another beginner-based web fullstack project - building a news reader with Java Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and a few bits of jQuery!
News Readers are a popular type of fullstack projects for the beginner / intermediate developer. A news reader commonly works by allowing you to store several URL links to RSS feeds all over the web. RSS is a popular XML based format which is most commonly used for publication syndication.
In other words, most news, entertainment, gaming, podcasts and blogs all rely on RSS to announce updates of their products and services.
In this small application, we'll construct two pages: a homepage and a feeds page.
The home page will attempt to query all the RSS feed urls you have stored in the database, and try to display them sorta legibly.
Then we have a feeds page which is used to add new Feeds to your list.
I hope you have a lot of fun with this project, and that it inspires you to pursue your own creative design!
Grab the source! github.com/wazooinc/spring-bo...
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- Docker Desktop Client - www.docker.com/
- Thymeleaf Reference - www.thymeleaf.org/documentati...
- RSS specification - www.rssboard.org/rss-draft-1
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===---=== Chapters ===---===
00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - News Reader Demo
01:25 - Start.spring.io setup
02:28 - Updating compose.yaml for Docker
08:38 - Inspecting the Docker containers
09:03 - Testing phpMyAdmin
09:34 - Updating the application.properties
10:08 - Creating the FeedItem Model
11:43 - Creating the FeedItemRepository interface
12:21 - Creating the FeedItemService service
15:10 - Creating the FeedItemController rest controller
17:42 - HomeController controller for our default page
19:50 - First iteration of index.html
20:51 - Adding Bootstrap and JQuery webjars
24:31 - Adding controller support for the feeds page
25:44 - Updating the feeds.html with input form
30:23 - Submitting HTML forms to a FormController
32:51 - Fetching RSS feeds with jQuery
39:43 - Wrapping up
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[@prashlovessamosa]

Great thanks

[@wazoowebbytes]

you're so welcome - happy it helped and thanks for stopping by!

[@wazoowebbytes]

Another beginner focused project - hopefully helping you with some tips and experience to grow! 👍

[@terryvanker2643]

Kinda hard to see the code at times, but a great guide otherwise !

[@wazoowebbytes]

Thank you so much! Yeah -- need to always be mindful of editor settings