๐Ÿง  Project Title: AI-Powered Blog with React & Spring Boot

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๐Ÿ”ง Tech Stack Overview

LayerTechnologyPurpose
FrontendReact 18+, Vite, Material UIBlog UI with AI-powered content tools
BackendSpring Boot 3.x, Java 17+REST APIs, AI handling, DB operations
AI APIOpenAI (or Ollama / Local LLMs)Summarization, keyword extraction
DatabasePostgreSQL / MongoDBBlog post storage
DeploymentDocker, Render/Heroku (optional)Deployment of frontend/backend

๐ŸŒ Frontend (React 18+ with Vite)

Features:

  • Modern Blog UI with Material UI

  • AI-powered tools (Summarize, Generate tags, Tone detection)

  • Markdown editor (like react-markdown)

  • Axios for API calls

Tools & Libraries:

Installation Steps:

npm create vite@latest ai-blog -- --template react
cd ai-blog
npm install @mui/material @emotion/react @emotion/styled axios react-markdown
npm run dev

Sample Component: AiToolsPanel.jsx

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
import { Button, TextField, Typography } from '@mui/material';

export default function AiToolsPanel({ content }) {
  const [summary, setSummary] = useState('');

  const handleSummarize = async () => {
    const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:8080/api/ai/summarize', { content });
    setSummary(response.data.summary);
  };

  return (
    <>
      <Button variant="contained" onClick={handleSummarize}>Summarize</Button>
      <Typography variant="body1" sx={{ mt: 2 }}>{summary}</Typography>
    </>
  );
}

๐Ÿ”™ Backend (Spring Boot + AI Integration)

Features:

  • CRUD for blog posts

  • AI endpoints for summarization / content assistance

  • Secure OpenAI or custom LLM integration

Tools:

  • Spring Initializr: https://start.spring.io

  • Spring Boot 3+

  • Java 17 or 21

  • Spring Web, Spring Data JPA, PostgreSQL/MongoDB Driver

  • OpenAI Java SDK (or HTTP Client)

Sample Dependencies:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.theokanning.openai-gpt3-java</groupId>
        <artifactId>client</artifactId>
        <version>0.11.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Example: AIController.java

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/api/ai")
public class AIController {

    private final OpenAiService openAiService;

    public AIController(@Value("${openai.api.key}") String apiKey) {
        this.openAiService = new OpenAiService(apiKey);
    }

    @PostMapping("/summarize")
    public Map<String, String> summarize(@RequestBody Map<String, String> request) {
        String content = request.get("content");
        CompletionRequest completionRequest = CompletionRequest.builder()
                .prompt("Summarize this:\n" + content)
                .maxTokens(100)
                .model("gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct")
                .build();

        CompletionResult result = openAiService.createCompletion(completionRequest);
        String summary = result.getChoices().get(0).getText().trim();
        return Map.of("summary", summary);
    }
}

๐Ÿง  AI API Options

1. OpenAI (GPT-3.5, GPT-4)

2. Ollama (for local LLM like LLaMA3)

  • https://ollama.com

  • Run ollama run llama3

  • Use Java HTTP client to call http://localhost:11434/api/generate


๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ Database Models (Blog + User)

Example Entity: BlogPost.java

@Entity
public class BlogPost {
    @Id @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
    private String title;
    @Column(length = 5000)
    private String content;
    private LocalDateTime createdAt;
}

๐Ÿ“ฆ Docker Support

Dockerfile for Spring Boot:

FROM eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-alpine
ARG JAR_FILE=target/*.jar
COPY ${JAR_FILE} app.jar
ENTRYPOINT ["java","-jar","/app.jar"]

docker-compose.yml (optional)

version: '3'
services:
  backend:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key

  db:
    image: postgres
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB=blog
      POSTGRES_USER=user
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pass

๐Ÿ“‘ Sample Features to Implement

FeatureTech Used
Markdown EditorReact Markdown, MUI
AI Content SummaryOpenAI API, Spring Boot
AI SEO Tags GeneratorPrompt engineering + AI API
Blog ManagementCRUD REST APIs
User Login/RegistrationSpring Security (optional)

๐Ÿ“˜ References & Tools


โœ… Bonus Ideas

  • Add AI grammar check using OpenAI

  • Integrate AI-based sentiment analysis

  • Use LangChain4J for chaining AI tasks in Java

  • Add authentication with JWT

  • Deploy with Render / Vercel

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