A community-driven platform for craft beer enthusiasts to catalog, rate, and discover local breweries. Built to focus on social interaction and reliable data structure.
Problem
•Need for relationships between Users, Beers, Breweries, and Reviews with strict integrity.
•Scalability of the catalog as user-generated content grows.
•Requirement for a clean, modile-first interface for on-the-go logging.
Approach
•Architected a robust relational schema in MySQL ensuring referential integrity for complex join queries.
•Developed a type-safe backend using Kotlin and Spring Boot, reducing boilerplate and runtime errors.
•Created a React frontend with strict state management for a snappy user experience.
Outcome
•Production-ready backend with comprehensive REST endpoints.
•Seamless user flow from registration to reviewing.
•Clean separation of concerns enabling easy feature additions.