[Java] [Springboot] [HTML] [CSS] [MyBatis] [MySQL] [Amazon EC2]
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In 2022 summer, after my freshmen year in Emory, I had a priviledge to intern at Twolinecode where, with the help of my supervisor Jong-yun Park and frontend developer Yeon-ji Kim, I was able to create a website in two months without any prior knowledge about web development.
My website idea was to create a space for people who are crazy about working out and weight-lifting (hence the domain name samde500, which is a Korean term similar to the ‘1000lb club’).
It was like a simple online bulletin board with post, delete, navigate page features.
The ‘kick’ of my website was the validation system. Whenever someone wanted to post something, users had to fill in the blanks requiring their SBD (squat, benchpress, deadlift) records with video links to prove them.
I was sick of the toxic comment sections on social media platforms where people’s impressive physical achievements were belittled as ‘mid’, and I found most of those haters were private account users hiding behind anonymity. I hoped this validation system would create a wholesome atmosphere where anonymous haters would be silenced and those who love working out can freely share their gym-journeys.
The overall project was built on Springboot framework using Java.
For the frontend of my website, I sent my design idea via https://ninjamock.com/s/VKB9TKx to Yeon-ji and she created the HTML, CSS file that matched my mockup. Then I added JavaScript files preventing invalid or error-causing input cases from users.
For storing data, I used Mybatis framework which allowed me to send queries to the MySQL database easily through xml formats.