
I built an Employee Management System to learn Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security. The project covered everything from user authentication to secure CRUD operations.

I used Next.js for the frontend and Sanity as a headless CMS to build my portfolio — all hosted for free. This setup gives me fast performance, easy content management, and zero hosting cost.

I explored Strapi as a backend platform and found that it handles APIs, auth, content, and admin tools out of the box. It works great when I need quick setup without sacrificing flexibility.