• ✅ Spring Boot REST APIs
• ✅ MongoDB Integration
• ✅ Dockerized Deployment
• ✅ Docker Compose Orchestration
• ✅ Clean Maven Project Structure

This project showcases a standard 3-tier architecture:

1. 👨‍💻 Presentation Layer – User interacts via API/UI
2. ⚙️ Application Layer – Spring Boot backend processes logic
3. 🗄️ Data Layer – MongoDB for persistent storage

Ideal for DevOps learners, CI/CD pipelines, Docker orchestration, and cloud-native application testing.

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Before you begin, ensure you have:

✅ Java 17+

✅ Maven

✅ Docker

✅ Docker Compose

Follow these steps to get the project up and running on your machine.

git clone https://github.com/Coding4Deep/3-tier-spring-mongo.git
cd 3-tier-spring-mongo

./mvnw clean package

docker-compose up --build

⏱️ Wait a few seconds for the application and MongoDB to initialize.

• 🔗 API Endpoint: http://localhost:8080
• 📔️ MongoDB: localhost:27017

You can interact with the backend using tools like:

• 📬 Postman
• 🌀 Curl
• 📄 Swagger UI (if integrated)

✅ You're all set! Happy coding! 🙌

We welcome contributions, feedback, and feature ideas! Here's how you can get involved:

1. Fork the Repository
   Click on the fork button to create your own copy.

2. Create a New Branch

git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name

3. Make Your Changes
   Improve the code, add features, or fix bugs.

4. Commit Your Changes

git commit -m "Add: a short meaningful commit message"

5. Push to GitHub

git push origin feature/your-feature-name

6. Open a Pull Request
   Navigate to your repo on GitHub and open a PR. Describe your changes and reference any related issues.

Thanks for helping improve this project! 💙

This project is licensed under the MIT License.