🛍️ DiMart - Spring Boot E-Commerce Application

DiMart is a full-stack e-commerce web application built using Spring Boot, Java, MySQL, and a responsive frontend developed with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.

The application demonstrates core e-commerce features including product browsing, shopping cart management, order placement, and contact functionality through RESTful APIs.

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🚀 Features

• 🛒 Browse products by category
• 🔍 Product catalog with dynamic data loading
• ➕ Add products to shopping cart
• 🛍️ Manage cart items
• 📦 Place customer orders
• 📩 Contact form with backend API
• 📱 Responsive user interface
• 🔗 RESTful API architecture
• 🗄️ MySQL database integration
• 🐳 Docker support for deployment

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend

• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• Hibernate
• REST API

Frontend

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript (ES6)
• jQuery

Database

• MySQL

Tools

• Maven
• Git
• GitHub
• IntelliJ IDEA
• VS Code
• Docker

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📂 Project Structure

DiMart
├── src
│   ├── main
│   │   ├── java
│   │   │   ├── controller
│   │   │   ├── service
│   │   │   ├── repository
│   │   │   ├── model
│   │   │   └── config
│   │   └── resources
│   │       ├── static
│   │       └── application.properties
├── sql
├── Dockerfile
├── pom.xml
└── README.md

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⚙️ Getting Started

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/DineshRaj74/DiMart.git

Move into the project folder:

cd DiMart

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Configure Database

Create a MySQL database.

Update your application.properties with your database credentials.

Example:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dimart
spring.datasource.username=YOUR_USERNAME
spring.datasource.password=YOUR_PASSWORD

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Run the Application

Using Maven:

mvn spring-boot:run

Or run the DimartApplication.java class directly from IntelliJ IDEA.

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Future Improvements

• User authentication
• Payment gateway integration
• Wishlist
• Product search and filters
• Admin dashboard
• Order history
• User profile management

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Learning Objectives

This project was developed to strengthen practical knowledge of:

• Spring Boot
• REST API development
• CRUD operations
• JPA & Hibernate
• Frontend integration
• MySQL database connectivity
• Git & GitHub workflow

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Author

Dinesh Raj S

GitHub: https://github.com/DineshRaj74

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dineshra-j07042005

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