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• The VotesController class consists of several almost identical methods. I know that copy-paste is bad, but I have no idea how to deal with it in this case.

• I am not sure about naming conventions in Spring. Have I properly named controllers, entities, fields, etc.?

• I really hate the way I pass information to the Mustache templates. For example, I need to display a question's creation date in this form: May 27 '20 at 15:40, but if I just use Date creationDateTime field from the Question entity Mustache will display it in form 2020-05-27 15:40:49.0.

And then I can use formattedCreationDateTime in the template. It is not the single one example.

• The VotesController class consists of several almost identical methods. I know that copy-paste is bad, but I have no idea how to deal with it in this case.

• I am not sure about naming conventions in Spring. Have I properly named controllers, entities, fields, etc.?

• I really hate the way I pass information to the Mustache templates. For example, I need to display a question's creation date in this form: May 27 '20 at 15:40, but if I just use Date creationDateTime field from the Question entity then Mustache will display it in the form 2020-05-27 15:40:49.0.

And then I can use formattedCreationDateTime in the template. It is not the only example.

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I have to write a simple web application using the Java Spring framework as my course project. So I decided to write a simple Stack Overflow clone. My application have the following features:

I am very new in Java, Spring, and web-backend world so I think there is large room for improvement.

• The VotesController class consists of several almost identical methods. I know that copy-past is bad, but I have no idea how to deal with it in this case.

• I am not sure about naming conventions in Spring. Have I properly named controllers, entities, fields, etc?

• I really hate the way I pass information to the Mustache templates. For example, I need to display a question's creation date in this form: May 27 '20 at 15:40, but if I just use Date creationDateTime field from the Question entity Mustache will display it in form 2020-05-27 15:40:49.0.

To solve this problem I have created the String formattedCreationDateTime field in the Question entity and call the Question.formatCreationDateTime method just before pass the question entity to Mustache.

I would really appreciate any advice's on how to improve my code. I would be glad to see review on my JavaScript and CSS, but it is not a priority.

I am not sure if relatively big code size like this is allowed on this site. I hope so.

I have to write a simple web application using the Java Spring framework as my course project. So I decided to write a simple Stack Overflow clone. My application has the following features:

I am very new in Java, Spring, and web-backend world so I think there is much room for improvement.

• The VotesController class consists of several almost identical methods. I know that copy-paste is bad, but I have no idea how to deal with it in this case.

• I am not sure about naming conventions in Spring. Have I properly named controllers, entities, fields, etc.?

• I really hate the way I pass information to the Mustache templates. For example, I need to display a question's creation date in this form: May 27 '20 at 15:40, but if I just use Date creationDateTime field from the Question entity Mustache will display it in form 2020-05-27 15:40:49.0.

To solve this problem I have created the String formattedCreationDateTime field in the Question entity and call the Question.formatCreationDateTime method just before passing the question entity to Mustache.

I would really appreciate any advice on how to improve my code. I would be glad to see review on my JavaScript and CSS, but it is not a priority.