My First Day Building Full-Stack: Spring Boot + Next.js

✅ What I did today

Created my first Spring Boot (Java) project

Wrote a small API using @RestController and @GetMapping

Fixed a port issue on 8080 (took me a while 😅)

Ran the backend and saw my API respond in the browser

Installed and set up Next.js

Made a simple homepage with two links

Learned how frontend (Next.js) and backend (Spring Boot) can talk to each other

🧠 What I understood

Backend = where the logic happens

Frontend = what the user sees

API = the connection between the two

Errors are normal… and solving them teaches you the most

🎯 What’s next?

I want to practice making more pages in Next.js, connect them to APIs, and slowly get better at both sides of development.