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macrozheng/mall

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TLDR

A complete Java e-commerce platform with customer storefront and admin back-office, built with Spring Boot, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. Deployable as Docker containers.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((mall))
    Customer Features
      Product search
      Shopping cart
      Order checkout
      Member center
    Admin Features
      Product management
      Order management
      Member management
      Promotions
    Tech Stack
      Spring Boot
      MySQL
      Elasticsearch
      Redis
    Architecture
      Monolithic version
      Microservices variant
      Docker deployment
    Use Cases
      Learning reference
      Shop template

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Study how a production Java e-commerce system integrates Spring Boot, databases, search, caching, and messaging.

USE CASE 2

Use as a starter template to build your own online shop with admin controls and customer features.

USE CASE 3

Deploy as Docker containers to learn containerized Java microservices architecture.

USE CASE 4

Reference implementation for product catalogs, shopping carts, order management, and member systems.

Tech stack

JavaSpring BootSpring SecurityMyBatisMySQLElasticsearchRedisRabbitMQ

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Multiple services required: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ; Docker Compose recommended but manual setup is complex.

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In plain English

mall is a complete online-shopping platform written in Java. It comes in two halves: a customer-facing storefront and an admin back office for the people running the shop. The storefront covers what shoppers expect, a homepage, product recommendations, search, product pages, a cart, the checkout and order flow, a member account area, customer service, and a help center. The admin side handles the work behind the counter: managing products, processing orders, looking after member accounts, running promotions, day-to-day operations, content, statistical reports, finances, user permissions, and settings. Under the hood the back end is built with Spring Boot and MyBatis, the standard Java stack for this kind of web application. Spring Boot runs the web server, MyBatis talks to the database, and Spring Security handles login and access rules. Around them sit the supporting pieces every busy shop needs: MySQL as the main database, Redis for caching, Elasticsearch for product search, MongoDB for document storage, RabbitMQ for passing messages between parts of the system, and the ELK stack for collecting and viewing logs. Everything is packaged into Docker containers so the whole stack can be deployed as a unit. The storefront and admin UI are separate Vue projects that talk to these back-end services, with a mobile version built on uni-app. Someone would pick this up to learn how a real-world online-shopping system is put together, to use as a template for their own shop, or as a teaching example for Spring Boot. A sister project, mall-swarm, rebuilds the same system on Spring Cloud Alibaba as a microservices version. The full README is longer than what was provided.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
How do I set up the mall project locally and run it with Docker?
Prompt 2
Show me how the product search feature uses Elasticsearch in this codebase.
Prompt 3
What's the difference between the monolithic mall and the mall-swarm microservices version?
Prompt 4
How does Spring Security handle authentication and role-based permissions in the admin back-office?
Prompt 5
Walk me through the order checkout flow from the storefront API to the database.
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