Student Management API

2022

A Spring Boot REST API with a React front end for managing student records, packaged with Docker Compose for deployment to Elastic Beanstalk.

Source

Java
Spring Boot
React
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

The backend is not currently hosted, so there is no live demo — the code and deployment configuration tell the story.

The API surface

Source

student/StudentController.java

@RestController
@RequestMapping(path = "api/v1/students")
public class StudentController {
    private final StudentService studentService;

    @GetMapping
    public List<Student> getAllStudents() {
        return studentService.getAllStudents();
    }
}

The controller stays thin and delegates to the service layer, which is what makes the API testable.

My introduction to a properly layered backend: controller, service and model separated, with a REST API the front end talks to over a thin client wrapper rather than scattering fetch calls through components.

The React front end handles the full CRUD surface with a drawer-based form and notification handling. The deployment configuration is the part I learned most from — containerising both halves and configuring Elastic Beanstalk to run them was my first experience of the gap between code that works locally and code that is deployed.

What it does

Layered Spring Boot architecture with a clean controller and service split
React front end talking to the API through a single client module
Docker Compose packaging targeting AWS Elastic Beanstalk