This project is a simple Spring Boot-based RESTful API for managing products and their categories. It demonstrates route protection using JWT (JSON Web Tokens) to ensure secure access to resources.
- ✅ Add products under specific categories
- 📦 Get all products or by category
- 🔐 JWT-based authentication and route protection
- 🧩 Clean separation of concerns (Controllers, Services, Repositories)
- 🌱 Built using Spring Boot with REST principles
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring Security (JWT)
- Maven
- H2 / MySQL (Pluggable)
- JPA/LOMBOK
- Postman (for API testing)