README.md

using react and spring to create a web service where users can write and share articles

The application is hosted on azure app service with Tomcat 9.0

application link https://sharearticles.azurewebsites.net/

Frontend is simple react which is hosted on the same server inside static files

Backend is spring web with maven

Article creation and view is done through rest APIs using spring.

Each article gets stored as a article object on the server which is used to view them and for avoiding multiple articles with the same name/url a serializable red black tree is used (i could have used an array, but tree will provide better complexities) which stores the article object name/url.

After uploading an article the server responds with the link, with which it can be accessed later.

Views count on each article depends on following

1. Cookies

2. IP and location (Only when cookies are deleted)

3. Browser, OS, Device name (Only when cookies are deleted)