Personal website and application for Christopher Bell. The project combines a Spring Boot backend with a vanilla JavaScript frontend (Webpack + Web Components).

• website – Spring Boot application and frontend. Contains all Node tooling.
• cbell-lib – Reusable Java library shared across applications.

• Java 21 (JDK)
• Node.js 18+
• npm 9+
• MongoDB

# Install frontend dependencies and build assets
cd website
npm install
npm run build

# From the repo root
./gradlew :website:build

1. Start MongoDB (default local profile expects mongodb://localhost:27019).
2. Run the app:

./gradlew :website:bootRun

Notes:

• The default Spring profile is local (see website/src/main/resources/application.yml).
• application-local.yml sets the server port to 8081.
• To override config, use environment variables such as SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local and SPRING_DATA_MONGODB_URI=....

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1. Build static assets and the runnable JAR:

cd website
npm ci
npm run build
cd ..
./gradlew :website:build

2. Configure production settings (MongoDB URI, ports, secrets) via environment variables:

• SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=prod
• SPRING_DATA_MONGODB_URI=mongodb://<host>:<port>/<db>
• SERVER_PORT=8080 (optional override)

3. Run the JAR produced under website/build/libs/:

java -jar website/build/libs/<jar-name>.jar

Each module also has its own README with additional details.