AquaCruise CloudBooker: Navigating Boating House Reservations with Java Full-Stack on AWS

🌊 AquaCruise CloudBooker

A full-stack web application designed for managing boat house reservations.

🏗️ Built as a college project to demonstrate full-stack cloud deployment and backend architecture.

🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vite + React (with lazy loading)
• Backend: Java (Spring Boot)
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Cloud (Presentation Only): AWS EC2 & RDS (for initial deployment)
• Status: 🔹 Currently not hosted — previously deployed on AWS for demonstration purposes.

📚 Key Features

• 🔐 User authentication and secure session handling
• 📅 Reservation system for boat house listings
• 🛠️ Admin panel for managing bookings and listings
• ⚡ Optimized frontend with Vite and code-splitting (lazy loading)

📘 What I Did

• Developed and tested the Spring Boot backend with PostgreSQL integration
• Built a responsive React frontend with Vite, optimized for fast loads
• Wrote full deployment pipeline scripts for AWS (EC2 instance + RDS)
• Delivered this project as part of a college presentation on cloud-native full-stack applications