Create an API for user creation and fetching

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Description

Create initial Java Spring Boot application to enable user account creation and retrieval. Requires database hookup/in-memory connection to work with example data.

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Initial App Creation via Spring Initializer

• Followed steps from: https://www.udemy.com/course/spring-boot-and-spring-framework-tutorial-for-beginners/learn/lecture/35018844#overview
• https://start.spring.io/
• https://github.com/stynan27/restful-web-services/blob/master/pom.xml

Initial packages

• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• H2 (in-memory) database
• Spring Boot DevTools

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• [x] How to save user account information via Spring JPA?
• [x] How to authenticate against stored credentials?

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Similar to the following article, replace MySQL with H2 in-memory DB. https://www.javaguides.net/2021/10/login-and-registration-rest-api-using-spring-boot-spring-security-hibernate-mysql-database.html

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Is there a means to use our database implementation to store and retrieve user credentials?

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Why we use BCrypt and it's importance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgpsIBLvrGY&ab_channel=StudyingWithAlex