CareerTrack - Internship Application Tracker

CareerTrack is a full-stack internship application tracker built to help students organize internship applications, deadlines, assessment stages, interview progress, and notes in one dashboard.

This project was created as a practical full-stack portfolio project using a React frontend and Java Spring Boot backend.

Features

• Add new internship applications
• View all saved applications
• Update application status
• Delete applications
• Search applications by company, role, or location
• Filter applications by status
• Track totals for applied roles, assessments, interviews, and offers
• Store data through a backend REST API

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
• Vite
• JavaScript
• CSS

Backend

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• H2 in-memory database

Tools

• Git
• GitHub
• npm
• Maven Wrapper

Project Structure

careertrack-internship-tracker/ ├── frontend/ │ └── React dashboard ├── backend/ │ └── Spring Boot REST API ├── docs/ │ └── project notes and screenshots ├── .github/ │ └── workflows └── README.md

API Endpoints

Method| Endpoint| Description GET| "/api/applications"| Get all applications POST| "/api/applications"| Create a new application PUT| "/api/applications/{id}"| Update an application DELETE| "/api/applications/{id}"| Delete an application

How to Run the Project

1. Run the Backend

cd backend mvnw.cmd spring-boot:run

The backend will run on:

http://localhost:8080

API test URL:

http://localhost:8080/api/applications

2. Run the Frontend

Open a second terminal:

cd frontend npm install npm run dev

The frontend will run on:

http://localhost:5173

Current Status

The project currently includes a working React frontend connected to a Java Spring Boot backend. Data is stored using an H2 in-memory database for development and testing.

Future Improvements

• Add PostgreSQL database support
• Add user authentication
• Add deadline reminders
• Add company priority levels
• Add interview notes and preparation checklist
• Add GitHub Actions for automated build testing
• Deploy frontend and backend online

Purpose

This project was built to practice full-stack development, REST API integration, frontend state management, backend data handling, and professional GitHub project organization.