DevPath – Skill & Job Readiness Platform

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DevPath is a full-stack skill and job readiness platform built to help students track technical skills, portfolio projects, and career preparation progress for internship and entry-level software roles.

The platform calculates a readiness score based on required skills for a selected target role and highlights missing or weak skills that need improvement.

Features

• Track technical skills with progress levels
• Mark skills as required for a target role
• Add and manage portfolio projects
• View total skills and total projects
• Calculate readiness score automatically
• Identify missing role-related skills
• Highlight weak skills below the recommended level
• Connect React frontend to Java Spring Boot backend through REST APIs
• Store data using an H2 development database
• Validate frontend and backend builds using GitHub Actions

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
• Vite
• JavaScript
• CSS

Backend

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• H2 Database
• REST API

Tools

• Git
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• VS Code

API Endpoints

Method| Endpoint| Description GET| "/api/skills"| Get all skills POST| "/api/skills"| Add a new skill PUT| "/api/skills/{id}"| Update a skill DELETE| "/api/skills/{id}"| Delete a skill GET| "/api/projects"| Get all portfolio projects POST| "/api/projects"| Add a new portfolio project PUT| "/api/projects/{id}"| Update a portfolio project DELETE| "/api/projects/{id}"| Delete a portfolio project GET| "/api/readiness"| Get readiness score and improvement suggestions

How to Run Locally

Backend

cd backend mvnw.cmd spring-boot:run

Backend runs on:

http://localhost:8080

Frontend

cd frontend npm install npm run dev

Frontend runs on:

http://localhost:5173

Current Status

The project currently includes a React frontend, Java Spring Boot backend, REST API integration, H2 database, readiness score calculation, and GitHub Actions build checks.

Future Improvements

• Add user authentication with JWT
• Replace H2 with PostgreSQL
• Add Docker support
• Add role templates for different internship types
• Add unit and integration tests
• Add charts for skill progress analytics
• Deploy frontend and backend online

Purpose

This project was created as a serious full-stack portfolio project to demonstrate practical software development skills, including frontend development, backend API design, database integration, and CI/CD workflow setup.