text: # Codebase for the blog post [Up- and download files with React and Spring Boot](https://rieckpil.de/howto-up-and-download-files-with-react-and-spring-boot/)
  
  Steps to run this project:
  
  1. Clone this Git repository
  2. Navigate to the folder `spring-boot-uploading-and-downloading-files-with-react`
  3. Make sure you use Java 11 `java -version`
  3. Start the application with `mvn spring-boot:run`
  4. Visit `http://localhost:8080` and upload some files and then download them randomly
  