RuoYi is a production‑ready Java rapid‑development framework for building enterprise back‑office management systems (CMS, CRM, OA, etc.). It is a monolithic Spring Boot application using Apache Shiro for authentication/authorization, MyBatis for persistence, Thymeleaf for server‑side rendering, and a jQuery/Bootstrap frontend with numerous third‑party plugins. The system provides a complete RBAC module (user, role, department, menu management), dictionary and configuration management, operation and login auditing, online user monitoring, Quartz‑based scheduled tasks, and a Velocity‑powered code generator that produces full CRUD modules from database tables. Additional features include dynamic data source switching, XSS/CSRF protection, captcha, file upload/download, Excel import/export with annotation‑driven mapping, and a demo suite for UI components. The architecture follows a modular Maven structure (admin, common, framework, system, generator, quartz) with a shared common module providing utilities, annotations, and exception hierarchy. While the framework is mature and widely adopted, its frontend stack (jQuery, Bootstrap 3‑era plugins) and use of Shiro represent technical drift compared to modern SPA or Spring Security approaches. The codebase is well‑organized and contains several reusable components, but is tightly coupled to its own conventions and lacks microservice readiness.
Layui is a classic web UI component library written in pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It provides a comprehensive set of 20+ interactive components including tables, forms, modals, date pickers, menus, trees, and more. The library follows a modular architecture with ES modules, a core component base class, and a consistent lifecycle (render/reload/destroy). It includes built-in internationalization, a resource loader, a simple front-end router, and a template engine (laytpl, though deprecated). The codebase is actively developed (v3.0.0-alpha.3) with modern build tooling (Rollup, PostCSS, ESLint) but retains some legacy patterns and a dependency on jQuery. The component base class and popup system are well-architected and reusable, while some modules (table, treeTable) are large and monolithic. Testing is incomplete, with unit tests marked as placeholder and visual tests requiring manual execution.
This is a multi-module Spring Boot application for a Chinese-language novel reading and publishing platform (原创文å¦CMS). It comprises four interconnected modules: novel-admin (back-office management with Layui/Shiro RBAC), novel-front (user-facing reader/author portal with JWT auth), novel-crawl (automated content ingestion from external novel sites), and novel-common (shared entities, mappers, utilities). The system provides full CRUD for books, chapters, comments, users, and payments; templated front-end themes (blue, green, orange, dark); Alipay/WeChat integration; AI-assisted writing via Spring AI (SiliconFlow); and a MyBatis-based data layer with Sharding-JDBC for sharding. While functionally rich and actively maintained, the codebase suffers from significant static asset duplication, mixed javax/jakarta imports, and multiple legacy third-party front-end libraries bundled directly.