Progress Tracker – Spring Boot Application

A productivity-focused Spring Boot web application designed to help users track progress and improve efficiency using a clean, layered architecture.

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🚀 Tech Stack

• Java 24
• Spring Boot 3.5.5
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Web
• Thymeleaf
• MySQL
• Maven
• Lombok

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✨ Features

• MVC-based Spring Boot architecture
• CRUD operations using Spring Data JPA
• RESTful endpoints
• Server-side rendering with Thymeleaf
• MySQL database integration
• Clean layered architecture (Controller, Service, Repository)

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📁 Project Structure

src/main/java/com/app
├── controller      # REST & MVC controllers
├── service         # Business logic layer
├── repository      # Data access layer
├── model           # Domain models / entities
└── ProgressTrackerApplication.java  # Spring Boot entry point

⚙️ Prerequisites

• Java 24+
• Maven
• MySQL
• IDE (IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse recommended)

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▶️ How to Run

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/progress-tracker.git
   cd progress-tracker ```
   

2. Configure MySQL

Update src/main/resources/application.properties:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/progress_tracker
spring.datasource.username=your_username
spring.datasource.password=your_password

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true

3. Run the application

mvn spring-boot:run

4. Open your browser

http://localhost:8080

##License

• This project is licensed under the MIT License.