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newbee-ltd/newbee-mall

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TLDR

A complete Java e-commerce system built for learning, featuring a customer storefront and admin panel on Spring Boot with MyBatis. Comes in multiple variants including Vue 3, microservices, and Go versions.

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    What It Does
      Online storefront
      Admin panel
      Order management
      Shopping cart
    Tech Stack
      Java
      Spring Boot
      MyBatis
      Thymeleaf
    Variants
      Vue 3 version
      Microservices version
      Go implementation
    Audience
      Java learners
      Bootcamp students
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a fully working online store with product listings, cart, and checkout as a Java learning project

USE CASE 2

Study how Spring Boot and MyBatis integrate in a real-world application with an admin dashboard

USE CASE 3

Explore a microservices e-commerce architecture using Spring Cloud Alibaba and related tools

Tech stack

JavaSpring BootMyBatisThymeleafVue 3

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires Java and MySQL, pick the branch matching your Spring Boot version before running.

Source code must remain open under GPL 3.0, commercial use is allowed but any modified version must also be released under GPL.

In plain English

newbee-mall is a complete e-commerce system built in Java, designed primarily as a learning project for Java developers. It includes both a customer-facing storefront and an admin management panel, built on top of Spring Boot with MyBatis for database access. The project has been maintained and updated since 2019. This repository is the base version, which uses server-side rendering via Thymeleaf. It sits at the center of a larger family of related repositories. More advanced variants include a front-end/back-end separation version using Vue 3 with a Spring Boot API, a flash-sale version, a Go language implementation, and a microservices version built with Spring Cloud Alibaba, Nacos, Sentinel, Seata, and related tools. The customer-facing storefront covers a home page, product categories, new arrivals, homepage carousels, product recommendations, search, product detail pages, shopping cart, checkout, order flow, personal order management, a member center, and a help center. The admin panel provides a data dashboard, carousel management, product management, order management, member management, category management, and settings. Multiple branches in this repository target different Spring Boot versions (2.3.7, 2.6.x, 2.7.5, and 3.x), so developers can work with the version that matches their environment. The README claims the project starts in about 2 seconds without complex setup steps. A live demo is available at the URL listed in the README. The project is accompanied by a paid tutorial book published on the Juejin platform that walks through building the system step by step. Source code is available under the GPL 3.0 license.

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Prompt 1
I have the newbee-mall Spring Boot e-commerce project. Help me add a product review feature to the storefront, including the database table, MyBatis mapper, service layer, and Thymeleaf template.
Prompt 2
I cloned newbee-mall and want to switch from the Thymeleaf version to the Vue 3 front-end/back-end separation variant. Walk me through what changes and how the API endpoints differ.
Prompt 3
In the newbee-mall admin panel, help me add a sales analytics chart to the data dashboard that shows daily order totals for the past 30 days using the existing order table.
Prompt 4
I want to understand the newbee-mall checkout flow end to end. Trace the code path from when a user clicks checkout to when an order record is created in the database.
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