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Intersocial is a robust social networking platform that leverages microservice-based architectures to provide scalability and enhance user experiences.
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# Intersocial - Social Networking Platform



Intersocial is a robust social networking platform that leverages microservice-based architectures to provide scalability and enhance user experiences. This README file will guide you through the installation, configuration, and usage of Intersocial, enabling you to build a powerful social networking application.



## Table of Contents

- [Introduction](#introduction)

- [Features](#features)

- [System Requirements](#system-requirements)

- [Installation](#installation)

- [Configuration](#configuration)

- [Usage](#usage)

- [Contributing](#contributing)

- [License](#license)



## Introduction

Intersocial is a social networking platform designed to meet the growing demands of today's connected world. By adopting a microservice-based architecture, Intersocial provides scalability, flexibility, and improved user experiences. With features like user profiles, news feeds, messaging, notifications, and content delivery, Intersocial empowers developers to build innovative and engaging social networking applications.



## Features

Intersocial offers the following key features:

- **User Profiles**: Users can create and manage their profiles, including personal information, profile pictures, and privacy settings.

- **News Feeds**: Users can view and interact with personalized news feeds, showcasing updates from friends, pages, and groups they follow.

- **Messaging**: Users can communicate with each other through private messaging, enabling direct conversations and group chats.

- **Notifications**: Users receive real-time notifications about friend requests, messages, comments, and other important events.

- **Content Delivery**: Intersocial efficiently delivers various types of content, such as images, videos, and documents, to users.

- **Scalability**: The microservice-based architecture allows the platform to scale horizontally, handling increasing user loads.

- **Flexibility**: Developers can extend and customize Intersocial by building and integrating additional microservices as needed.



## System Requirements

To run Intersocial, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

- Operating System: Any modern operating system (e.g., Windows, macOS, Linux)

- Processor: Dual-core processor or higher

- Memory: 4GB RAM or higher

- Storage: 100MB free disk space

- Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB

- Node.js: Version 12 or higher

- Package Manager: npm (Node Package Manager) or Yarn



## Installation

To install and set up Intersocial on your system, follow these steps:



1. Clone the Intersocial repository from GitHub:

   ```bash

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/intersocial.git

   ```



2. Navigate to the project directory:

   ```bash

   cd intersocial

   ```



3. Install the required dependencies:

   ```bash

   npm install

   # or

   yarn install

   ```



4. Set up the database:

   - Create a new database in your preferred database management system (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB).

   - Update the database connection settings in the configuration file.



5. Build the project:

   ```bash

   npm run build

   # or

   yarn build

   ```



6. Start the server:

   ```bash

   npm start

   # or

   yarn start

   ```



7. Open your web browser and navigate to `http://localhost:3000` to access Intersocial.



## Configuration

Before running Intersocial, make sure to configure the necessary settings. Here's an overview of the configuration options:



- **Database**: Set the connection details for your chosen database management system, such as host, port, username, password, and database name.



- **Authentication**: Configure the authentication settings, including the secret key, token expiration time, and any external authentication providers you wish to integrate.



- **File Storage**: Specify the storage provider for handling user-uploaded files, such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or a local file system.



- **Email Configuration**: Provide the SMTP server details to enable email notifications, including the host, port, authentication credentials, and sender information.



Please refer to the configuration file provided in the project repository for detailed instructions on each setting.



## Usage

Once Intersocial is installed and configured, you can start exploring and utilizing its features. Here are some key usage instructions:



- **User Registration**: Users can sign up for an account by providing the required information and confirming their email address.



- **User Profiles**: After registration, users can create and update their profiles, including adding profile pictures, updating personal information, and managing privacy settings.



- **News Feeds**: Users can browse their personalized news feeds, view updates from friends, pages, and groups they follow, and interact with posts through comments, likes, and shares.



- **Messaging**: Users can communicate with each other privately using the messaging feature, enabling one-on-one conversations and group chats.



- **Notifications**: Intersocial sends real-time notifications to users for important events, such as friend requests, new messages, comments on posts, and more.



- **Content Delivery**: Intersocial efficiently delivers various types of content, including images, videos, and documents, to enhance user experiences.



Feel free to explore the platform further and customize it to meet your specific requirements by extending the microservices or integrating additional functionality.



## Contributing

We welcome contributions to enhance the functionality and features of Intersocial. If you would like to contribute, please follow these steps:



1. Fork the Intersocial repository on GitHub.



2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix:

   ```bash

   git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name

   ```



3. Make your modifications and commit your changes:

   ```bash

   git commit -m "Add your commit message"

   ```



4. Push your branch to your forked repository:

   ```bash

   git push origin feature/your-feature-name

   ```



5. Open a pull request against the main repository, providing a clear description of your changes.



We appreciate your contributions and will review your pull request as soon as possible.



## License

Intersocial is released under the [MIT License](https://github.com/KOSASIH/Intersocial/blob/main/LICENSE). You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software in accordance with the terms and conditions of the license. Please see the `LICENSE` file for more details.



---



Thank you for choosing Intersocial! We hope this README provides you with the necessary information to get started. Should you have any questions or issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.



## Project Structure



Node is required for generation and recommended for development. `package.json` is always generated for a better development experience with prettier, commit hooks, scripts and so on.



In the project root, JHipster generates configuration files for tools like git, prettier, eslint, husky, and others that are well known and you can find references in the web.



`/src/*` structure follows default Java structure.



- `.yo-rc.json` - Yeoman configuration file

  JHipster configuration is stored in this file at `generator-jhipster` key. You may find `generator-jhipster-*` for specific blueprints configuration.

- `.yo-resolve` (optional) - Yeoman conflict resolver

  Allows to use a specific action when conflicts are found skipping prompts for files that matches a pattern. Each line should match `[pattern] [action]` with pattern been a [Minimatch](https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch#minimatch) pattern and action been one of skip (default if ommited) or force. Lines starting with `#` are considered comments and are ignored.

- `.jhipster/*.json` - JHipster entity configuration files



- `npmw` - wrapper to use locally installed npm.

  JHipster installs Node and npm locally using the build tool by default. This wrapper makes sure npm is installed locally and uses it avoiding some differences different versions can cause. By using `./npmw` instead of the traditional `npm` you can configure a Node-less environment to develop or test your application.

- `/src/main/docker` - Docker configurations for the application and services that the application depends on



## Development



Before you can build this project, you must install and configure the following dependencies on your machine:



1. [Node.js][]: We use Node to run a development web server and build the project.

   Depending on your system, you can install Node either from source or as a pre-packaged bundle.



After installing Node, you should be able to run the following command to install development tools.

You will only need to run this command when dependencies change in [package.json](package.json).



```

npm install

```



We use npm scripts and [Angular CLI][] with [Webpack][] as our build system.



Run the following commands in two separate terminals to create a blissful development experience where your browser

auto-refreshes when files change on your hard drive.



```

./mvnw

npm start

```



Npm is also used to manage CSS and JavaScript dependencies used in this application. You can upgrade dependencies by

specifying a newer version in [package.json](package.json). You can also run `npm update` and `npm install` to manage dependencies.

Add the `help` flag on any command to see how you can use it. For example, `npm help update`.



The `npm run` command will list all of the scripts available to run for this project.



### PWA Support



JHipster ships with PWA (Progressive Web App) support, and it's turned off by default. One of the main components of a PWA is a service worker.



The service worker initialization code is disabled by default. To enable it, uncomment the following code in `src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts`:



```typescript

ServiceWorkerModule.register('ngsw-worker.js', { enabled: false }),

```



### Managing dependencies



For example, to add [Leaflet][] library as a runtime dependency of your application, you would run following command:



```

npm install --save --save-exact leaflet

```



To benefit from TypeScript type definitions from [DefinitelyTyped][] repository in development, you would run following command:



```

npm install --save-dev --save-exact @types/leaflet

```



Then you would import the JS and CSS files specified in library's installation instructions so that [Webpack][] knows about them:

Edit [src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts](src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts) file:



```

import 'leaflet/dist/leaflet.js';

```



Edit [src/main/webapp/content/scss/vendor.scss](src/main/webapp/content/scss/vendor.scss) file:



```

@import 'leaflet/dist/leaflet.css';

```



Note: There are still a few other things remaining to do for Leaflet that we won't detail here.



For further instructions on how to develop with JHipster, have a look at [Using JHipster in development][].



### Developing Microfrontend



Microservices doesn't contain every required backend feature to allow microfrontends to run alone.

You must start a pre-built gateway version or from source.



Start gateway from source:



```

cd gateway

npm run docker:db:up # start database if necessary

npm run docker:others:up # start service discovery and authentication service if necessary

npm run app:start # alias for ./(mvnw|gradlew)

```



Microfrontend's `build-watch` script is configured to watch and compile microfrontend's sources and synchronizes with gateway's frontend.

Start it using:



```

cd microfrontend

npm run docker:db:up # start database if necessary

npm run build-watch

```



It's possible to run microfrontend's frontend standalone using:



```

cd microfrontend

npm run docker:db:up # start database if necessary

npm watch # alias for `npm start` and `npm run backend:start` in parallel

```



### Using Angular CLI



You can also use [Angular CLI][] to generate some custom client code.



For example, the following command:



```

ng generate component my-component

```



will generate few files:



```

create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.html

create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.ts

update src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts

```



### JHipster Control Center



JHipster Control Center can help you manage and control your application(s). You can start a local control center server (accessible on http://localhost:7419) with:



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/jhipster-control-center.yml up

```



### OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect



Congratulations! You've selected an excellent way to secure your JHipster application. If you're not sure what OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) are, please see [What the Heck is OAuth?](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/06/21/what-the-heck-is-oauth)



To log in to your app, you'll need to have [Keycloak](https://keycloak.org) up and running. The JHipster Team has created a Docker container for you that has the default users and roles. Start Keycloak using the following command.



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/keycloak.yml up

```



The security settings in `src/main/resources/config/application.yml` are configured for this image.



```yaml

spring:

  ...

  security:

    oauth2:

      client:

        provider:

          oidc:

            issuer-uri: http://localhost:9080/realms/jhipster

        registration:

          oidc:

            client-id: web_app

            client-secret: web_app

            scope: openid,profile,email

```



Some of Keycloak configuration is now done in build time and the other part before running the app, here is the [list](https://www.keycloak.org/server/all-config) of all build and configuration options.



Before moving to production, please make sure to follow this [guide](https://www.keycloak.org/server/configuration) for better security and performance.



Also, you should never use `start-dev` nor `KC_DB=dev-file` in production.



When using Kubernetes, importing should be done using init-containers (with a volume when using `db=dev-file`).



### Okta



If you'd like to use Okta instead of Keycloak, it's pretty quick using the [Okta CLI](https://cli.okta.com/). After you've installed it, run:



```shell

okta register

```



Then, in your JHipster app's directory, run `okta apps create` and select **JHipster**. This will set up an Okta app for you, create `ROLE_ADMIN` and `ROLE_USER` groups, create a `.okta.env` file with your Okta settings, and configure a `groups` claim in your ID token.



Run `source .okta.env` and start your app with Maven or Gradle. You should be able to sign in with the credentials you registered with.



If you're on Windows, you should install [WSL](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) so the `source` command will work.



If you'd like to configure things manually through the Okta developer console, see the instructions below.



First, you'll need to create a free developer account at . After doing so, you'll get your own Okta domain, that has a name like `https://dev-123456.okta.com`.



Modify `src/main/resources/config/application.yml` to use your Okta settings.



```yaml

spring:

  ...

  security:

    oauth2:

      client:

        provider:

          oidc:

            issuer-uri: https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default

        registration:

          oidc:

            client-id: {clientId}

            client-secret: {clientSecret}

security:

```



Create an OIDC App in Okta to get a `{clientId}` and `{clientSecret}`. To do this, log in to your Okta Developer account and navigate to **Applications** > **Add Application**. Click **Web** and click the **Next** button. Give the app a name you’ll remember, specify `http://localhost:8080` as a Base URI, and `http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/oidc` as a Login Redirect URI. Click **Done**, then Edit and add `http://localhost:8080` as a Logout redirect URI. Copy and paste the client ID and secret into your `application.yml` file.



Create a `ROLE_ADMIN` and `ROLE_USER` group and add users into them. Modify e2e tests to use this account when running integration tests. You'll need to change credentials in `src/test/javascript/e2e/account/account.spec.ts` and `src/test/javascript/e2e/admin/administration.spec.ts`.



Navigate to **API** > **Authorization Servers**, click the **Authorization Servers** tab and edit the default one. Click the **Claims** tab and **Add Claim**. Name it "groups", and include it in the ID Token. Set the value type to "Groups" and set the filter to be a Regex of `.*`.



After making these changes, you should be good to go! If you have any issues, please post them to [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jhipster). Make sure to tag your question with "jhipster" and "okta".



### Auth0



If you'd like to use [Auth0](https://auth0.com/) instead of Keycloak, follow the configuration steps below:



- Create a free developer account at . After successful sign-up, your account will be associated with a unique domain like `dev-xxx.us.auth0.com`

- Create a new application of type `Regular Web Applications`. Switch to the `Settings` tab, and configure your application settings like:

  - Allowed Callback URLs: `http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/oidc`

  - Allowed Logout URLs: `http://localhost:8080/`

- Navigate to **User Management** > **Roles** and create new roles named `ROLE_ADMIN`, and `ROLE_USER`.

- Navigate to **User Management** > **Users** and create a new user account. Click on the **Role** tab to assign roles to the newly created user account.

- Navigate to **Auth Pipeline** > **Rules** and create a new Rule. Choose `Empty rule` template. Provide a meaningful name like `JHipster claims` and replace `Script` content with the following and Save.



```javascript

function (user, context, callback) {

  user.preferred_username = user.email;

  const roles = (context.authorization || {}).roles;



  function prepareCustomClaimKey(claim) {

    return `https://www.jhipster.tech/${claim}`;

  }



  const rolesClaim = prepareCustomClaimKey('roles');



  if (context.idToken) {

    context.idToken[rolesClaim] = roles;

  }



  if (context.accessToken) {

    context.accessToken[rolesClaim] = roles;

  }



  callback(null, user, context);

}

```



- In your `JHipster` application, modify `src/main/resources/config/application.yml` to use your Auth0 application settings:



```yaml

spring:

  ...

  security:

    oauth2:

      client:

        provider:

          oidc:

            # make sure to include the ending slash!

            issuer-uri: https://{your-auth0-domain}/

        registration:

          oidc:

            client-id: {clientId}

            client-secret: {clientSecret}

            scope: openid,profile,email

jhipster:

  ...

  security:

    oauth2:

      audience:

        - https://{your-auth0-domain}/api/v2/

```



### Doing API-First development using openapi-generator-cli



[OpenAPI-Generator]() is configured for this application. You can generate API code from the `src/main/resources/swagger/api.yml` definition file by running:



```bash

./mvnw generate-sources

```



Then implements the generated delegate classes with `@Service` classes.



To edit the `api.yml` definition file, you can use a tool such as [Swagger-Editor](). Start a local instance of the swagger-editor using docker by running: `docker compose -f src/main/docker/swagger-editor.yml up -d`. The editor will then be reachable at [http://localhost:7742](http://localhost:7742).



Refer to [Doing API-First development][] for more details.



## Building for production



### Packaging as jar



To build the final jar and optimize the Intersocial application for production, run:



```

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify

```



This will concatenate and minify the client CSS and JavaScript files. It will also modify `index.html` so it references these new files.

To ensure everything worked, run:



```

java -jar target/*.jar

```



Then navigate to [http://localhost:8081](http://localhost:8081) in your browser.



Refer to [Using JHipster in production][] for more details.



### Packaging as war



To package your application as a war in order to deploy it to an application server, run:



```

./mvnw -Pprod,war clean verify

```



## Testing



To launch your application's tests, run:



```

./mvnw verify

```



### Client tests



Unit tests are run by [Jest][]. They're located in [src/test/javascript/](src/test/javascript/) and can be run with:



```

npm test

```



### Other tests



Performance tests are run by [Gatling][] and written in Scala. They're located in [src/test/java/gatling/simulations](src/test/java/gatling/simulations).



You can execute all Gatling tests with



```

./mvnw gatling:test

```



For more information, refer to the [Running tests page][].



### Code quality



Sonar is used to analyse code quality. You can start a local Sonar server (accessible on http://localhost:9001) with:



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/sonar.yml up -d

```



Note: we have turned off forced authentication redirect for UI in [src/main/docker/sonar.yml](src/main/docker/sonar.yml) for out of the box experience while trying out SonarQube, for real use cases turn it back on.



You can run a Sonar analysis with using the [sonar-scanner](https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Scanner) or by using the maven plugin.



Then, run a Sonar analysis:



```

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify sonar:sonar -Dsonar.login=admin -Dsonar.password=admin

```



If you need to re-run the Sonar phase, please be sure to specify at least the `initialize` phase since Sonar properties are loaded from the sonar-project.properties file.



```

./mvnw initialize sonar:sonar -Dsonar.login=admin -Dsonar.password=admin

```



Additionally, Instead of passing `sonar.password` and `sonar.login` as CLI arguments, these parameters can be configured from [sonar-project.properties](sonar-project.properties) as shown below:



```

sonar.login=admin

sonar.password=admin

```



For more information, refer to the [Code quality page][].



## Using Docker to simplify development (optional)



You can use Docker to improve your JHipster development experience. A number of docker-compose configuration are available in the [src/main/docker](src/main/docker) folder to launch required third party services.



For example, to start a oracle database in a docker container, run:



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/oracle.yml up -d

```



To stop it and remove the container, run:



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/oracle.yml down

```



You can also fully dockerize your application and all the services that it depends on.

To achieve this, first build a docker image of your app by running:



```

npm run java:docker

```



Or build a arm64 docker image when using an arm64 processor os like MacOS with M1 processor family running:



```

npm run java:docker:arm64

```



Then run:



```

docker compose -f src/main/docker/app.yml up -d

```



When running Docker Desktop on MacOS Big Sur or later, consider enabling experimental `Use the new Virtualization framework` for better processing performance ([disk access performance is worse](https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/7)).



For more information refer to [Using Docker and Docker-Compose][], this page also contains information on the docker-compose sub-generator (`jhipster docker-compose`), which is able to generate docker configurations for one or several JHipster applications.



## Continuous Integration (optional)



To configure CI for your project, run the ci-cd sub-generator (`jhipster ci-cd`), this will let you generate configuration files for a number of Continuous Integration systems. Consult the [Setting up Continuous Integration][] page for more information.



[JHipster Homepage and latest documentation]: https://www.jhipster.tech

[JHipster 8.0.0-beta.2 archive]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2

[Doing microservices with JHipster]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/microservices-architecture/

[Using JHipster in development]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/development/

[Service Discovery and Configuration with the JHipster-Registry]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/microservices-architecture/#jhipster-registry

[Using Docker and Docker-Compose]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/docker-compose

[Using JHipster in production]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/production/

[Running tests page]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/running-tests/

[Code quality page]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/code-quality/

[Setting up Continuous Integration]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/setting-up-ci/

[Node.js]: https://nodejs.org/

[NPM]: https://www.npmjs.com/

[Webpack]: https://webpack.github.io/

[BrowserSync]: https://www.browsersync.io/

[Jest]: https://facebook.github.io/jest/

[Leaflet]: https://leafletjs.com/

[DefinitelyTyped]: https://definitelytyped.org/

[Angular CLI]: https://cli.angular.io/

[Gatling]: https://gatling.io/

[OpenAPI-Generator]: https://openapi-generator.tech

[Swagger-Editor]: https://editor.swagger.io

[Doing API-First development]: https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v8.0.0-beta.2/doing-api-first-development/



Intersocial by KOSASIH is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International