Getting started with Spring Boot

29-04-2022

Welcome to getting started with Spring Boot.

The only thing you need to know is Java.

Installations

1. Install the Java Development Kit (JDK).
2. Install maven (package manager)

Linux

$ sudo apt install maven

Windows

Download from maven.apache.org

3. Install Vscode extensions for developing with Spring

   a. Install Extension Pack for Java

   b. Install Spring Boot Extension Pack

Getting Started

You can visit https://youtu.be/eApc_BxEYsU for a video tutorial.

1. Visit start.spring.io

2. Configure your project. We will configure a minimum configuration.

Project	We will choose maven
Language	We will choose Java
Spring Boot	We will pick the default spring boot default
Project Metadata
Group	reverse of domain. Example google.com will be written as com.google
Artifact	Your project name
Description	the description for your project

We will leave other configurations as default.

start.spring.io

Add a dependency: We will add a spring web dependency

Adding dependency

And we are good to go. Click Generate.

3. A zip file will download. Extract the contents and open the folder in vscode.

4. Once in vscode, open new terminal. Then run the following commands.

$ mvn install

This command installs the required maven dependencies for your project.

$ mvn spring-boot:run

Spring Boot is running

If you saw the above screen that means Spring Boot is running and by default it runs at http://localhost:8080

5. Open your browser and head over to http://localhost:8080

Whitelabel error

If you see the whitelabel error that means Spring Boot is running.

You've reached the end. Can't wait to see what you will do with Spring Boot.