This application is used in the Spring with Hibernate Treehouse course. The app was originally built in the Spring Basics course, and its functionality is extended in the following ways:

• Adds persisted data, using an H2 database
• Manages data with Hibernate

What this app does:

• Serves dynamic web content according to URI, including index and detail pages for categories and GIFs
• Includes database connectivity, where GIF data is stored
• Allows a user to perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on GIF and category data
• Performs server-side form validation for adding/updating GIFs and categories
• Uses a database
• Serves static assets, such as images, fonts, CSS, and JS

What this app does NOT do:

• Implement user authentication