Spring Boot for beginners
Build your first Spring Boot application: what Spring and Spring Boot add, creating a project with Spring Initializr, a REST controller, dependency injection with services, configuration in application.yml, saving data with Spring Data JPA, testing and packaging.
CodexBash, , 5 min read
Spring Boot is the most popular way to build server applications in Java. Plain Java can serve web requests, but you would write a great deal of setup code first: an HTTP server, JSON conversion, database connections, configuration loading. Spring provides all of these pieces, and Spring Boot wires them together automatically with sensible defaults, so a working web API takes a few files. This guide builds a small API from nothing and explains each idea as it appears.
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