Mental Health App - Backend Microservices 🚀

Welcome to the Mental Health App Backend repository! 🎯 This backend system is designed to support the frontend of a mental health application using a modular, scalable microservices architecture. Each service is built with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, ensuring reliability and high performance.

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📌 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Microservices
• Getting Started
• Technologies Used
• Project Structure
• Frontend Repository
• Contributing
• License

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🛠 Overview

This project follows a Microservices Architecture, where each service is loosely coupled and independently deployable. The services communicate via REST APIs and service discovery, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and ease of maintenance.

🔥 Key Features

✅ API Gateway - Centralized entry point for all requests.\
✅ Service Discovery - Dynamic service registration using Eureka.\
✅ Streaming Data - Implemented using Spring WebFlux.\
✅ User Management - Authentication, registration, and profiles.\
✅ Scalable & Resilient - Easily add new microservices without breaking the system.\
✅ Mental Health Chat Support - Handles AI-driven and human-assisted chat interactions.

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🔗 Microservices

Service	Path	Description
API Gateway	apigateway	Handles authentication, logging, and routes requests.
Chat Service	chat-service	Manages mental health chat interactions using Spring WebFlux.
Eureka Server	eureka-server	Service registry for dynamic service discovery.
User Service	user-service	Manages authentication, registration, and user profiles.

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🚀 Getting Started

📋 Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Java 17 or higher
• Maven 3.8+
• Ollama with LLaMA 3

🏗 Running the Services

1️⃣ Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/thughari/Mental-Health-App-Backend.git
cd backend-microservices

2️⃣ Start the Eureka Server:

cd eureka-server
./mvnw spring-boot:run

3️⃣ Start the other services in the following order:

cd apigateway
./mvnw spring-boot:run

cd user-service
./mvnw spring-boot:run

cd chat-service
./mvnw spring-boot:run

4️⃣ Access the services:

• API Gateway: http://localhost:8081
• Eureka Dashboard: http://localhost:8761

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🛠 Technologies Used

• Spring Boot - Microservices Framework
• Spring Cloud - Service Discovery & Configuration
• Eureka - Service Registry
• Maven - Build & Dependency Management
• JWT - Authentication & Authorization
• Spring WebFlux - Reactive Data Streaming

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📁 Project Structure

backend-microservices/
├── apigateway/       # API Gateway service
├── chat-service/     # Mental Health Chat microservice
├── eureka-server/    # Service registry
├── user-service/     # User management microservice

Each folder contains:

• src/ - Source code
• pom.xml - Maven configuration
• .mvn/ - Maven wrapper files

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🔗 Frontend Repository

The frontend for this mental health application can be found at: 👉 Frontend Repository - Mental Health App

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! 🚀 To contribute:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a feature branch:

   git checkout -b feature-name

3. Commit your changes:

   git commit -m "Add feature"

4. Push the branch:

   git push origin feature-name

5. Open a Pull Request.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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🎯 Happy Coding! 🚀