Backend of the ScholarX project

Prerequisites

• Java
• Maven
• MySQL
• Linkedin Social Login App
• Gmail Account with an App Password

Setup Linkedin Social Login App

1. Create a new Linkedin App (help?)
2. Click on Auth tab and add http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/linkedin as an authorised redirect URL
3. Make Sure you have properly added the Sign in with Linkedin product under products tab

Setup a gmail account with an app password

1. Create a new gmail account if you don't have one already
2. Enable Two Factor Authorisation
3. Generate a new App Password (help?)

Steps

1. Fork and clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/<your profile name>/scholarx

2. Open the cloned repo, Find and open the application.yml file
3. Replace the client-id and client-secret with the values from the above linkedin social app

mvn spring-boot:run