EYEDRA Backend - Mental Wellbeing Social Media Application

This repository contains the backend services for the EYEDRA mental wellbeing social media application. It follows a microservices architecture with Spring Boot and various supporting technologies to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.

🚀 Key Features

• Microservices Architecture: Separate services for users, communities, posts, reactions, and notifications.
• Video Call Therapy Sessions: Real-time video calls with listeners (counselors).
• Community Chat Groups: Secure, listener-exclusive community creation and management.
• Layered Architecture: Ensures separation of concerns and scalability.
• JWT Authentication and Authorization: Role-based access control for user, listener, and admin.
• Service Discovery and API Gateway: Uses Eureka Server and Spring Cloud Gateway.
• Real-time Notifications: Keep users updated on important events.

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🧑‍💻 Technologies Used

• Backend Framework: Spring Boot
• Architecture: Microservices
• Service Discovery: Eureka Server
• API Gateway: Spring Cloud Gateway
• Authentication: JWT Token-based
• Database: MySQL, MongoDB
• Communication Protocols: REST, WebSockets, Socket.io
• Load Balancing and Service Registry: Eureka
• Logging and Monitoring: Spring Boot Actuator

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🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher
• Maven
• Docker (for containerization)
• MySQL
• MongoDB