1115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY Marcos Maia Posted on Jun 30, 2019 + Updated on Jul 4, 2019 Spring Boot - Crash course ispringboot #java tutorial #beginners The goal of this post is to enable you to run your first Spring Boot Application as most of my posts here will require you to start from there. Spring _boot is a framework that applies a lot of opinionated configurations by default, which makes it a very simple framework to start developing within the Java ecosystem, it also has great support for testing, good support for Kotlin although | would recommend caution and would wait before using heavily on the server side to run Kotlin projects in production, for Android development its another story, Kotlin is currently the recommended language to use. With Spring Boot no XML configuration is needed, which makes it very easy to create and run Spring/Java applications, the downside is that you need to understand it's conventions to know exactly what's going on, especially when troubleshooting issues. It's really great that it also provides many nice features required in real projects including non-functionals which is very useful and time saving. To create a Spring Boot application the easiest way is using a plugin integrated with your hitps:dev tanthogrootspring boot erash-course-2tnm ve1115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY favorite IDE or go to the Spring Boot Initializer website and create your initial application setup there. It's quite easy to use and offers an enormous amount of possible combinations from the Spring ecosystem. Let's create our first Spring Boot Application and run it, if you don't have java 8 or java 11 installed check out my previous post where you will find directions on all you'll need to. set up in order to run the sample projects from my blog posts, including this one. Now, open the Spring Initializr website and follow the steps below: 1. Project: Maven 2. Language: Java 3. Spring Boot: Pick the latest release currently it's 2.1.6 4, Project Metadata * Group: io.stockgeeks * artifact: firstapp * Options = Name: firstapp = Description: My first project with Spring Boot = Package Name: io.stockgeeks firstapp = Packaging: Jar = Java: 11 5. Dependencies: Search and add spring Web starter, make sure it's under Selected dependencies. Click Generate the Project big green button and download the zip file, save it to your preferred location, Extract the zip file with your preferred compression tool. hitps:dev lanthogroatspring boot erash-course-2tnm 281115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY Spring Initialize Langunee eve ya ict ith Spring Bot lostockgeeks nap Now let's run it. Make sure you have Java 11 and maven installed. Navigate to the folder where you extracted the zip file and check the files in there, you should have a pon.xn1 file which is the maven parent pom for your project. If you're using an IDE you can now load this folder in it and it should recognize it as a maven project, but for now, we're going to run the application using the command line. Download the dependencies, compile it and generate an executable jar file using maven: mvn clean package You should see a BUILD SUCCESS message like the screenshot below: hitps:dev lanthogroatspring boot erash-course-2tnm ae1115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY Now you'll have a target folder created, this folder is completely generated during the build process and you can remove it at any time, Make sure to have it added to your -gitignore file as you don't want to commit this folder's contents at all, this folder is where you will also find all compiled and packaged structure generated by the build and packaging process. If you list the contents of the target folder you should see a file with the name firstapp- 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT. jar, this is the file containing your executable application, it has an embedded java enabled , which by default is but you can also using maven and spring boot plugin: vn spring-boot:run or using java to run the generated jar file: java -jar target/[email protected]. Once you see the message: Tomcat started on port(s): 8@8@ (http) you have your Spring Boot Application Running. To finish with something more useful let's add a REST endpoint and a static HTML page. hitps:dev lanthogrootspring boot erash-course-2tnm 481115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY Add an endpoint and default static page index.html Create a folder named public and add an index.html page with any content you want under /src/main/resources/public. Spring Boot automatically add the public folder content to be served, it also by default enables other paths under resources: /META-INF/resources/ /resources/ /static/ /public/ Rest Endpoint Let's now create the simplest possible REST endpoint, create a java class on the same package level where you have the FirstappAplication java definition, in my case package io.stockgeeks firstapp , call it: HeLlospringrest. java Add the following content: package ‘ import, 3 import 5 import 5 @controller G@RequestMapping("/api") hitps:dev afthogroolspring boot erash-course-2tnm se1115725, 3.09 PM Spring Bot Crash course - DEV Community FEY public class HelloSpringRest { @GetMapping("/hello") public String hello(@pathParam("name”) String name) { return “Hello, " + names } } Allit takes to create REST endpoints with spring is some annotations and few lines of java code. The @controller annotation sinalizes to Spring Boot that this is a spring managed component, the @equestMapping(“api") prepares the REST endpoint root context for endpoints added to this class and map them as "/api", the @GetMapping("/hello") registers the context "/hello" to receive HTTP GET requests and finally the @PathParam(“name’) registers a query string for the GET call with the key "name". Build and run As before anytime you want to run from the command line you can build and run: va clean package && mvn spring-boot:run.. Now navigate to: http://localhost:8080 and you should see the static index.htm! page that was just created. To test the REST endpoint you can point the browser to http://locahost:8080/api/hello? name=Spock or use curl: curt -x GET http: //locahost:8080/api /nello?nane=spock Done You have created a Spring Boot Application and a static page and REST endpoint. The goal of this post was to enable you to easily create Spring Boot Applications and | will refer back to this in my future posts because most of the posts here will require having a Spring Boot Application as a starting point. If you want to see the source code and didn't follow the aforementioned steps you can clone this post project repo with: git clone [email protected]:stockgeeks/firstapp.git References Can = at vesithy Cn. hitps:dev lafthogroatspring boot-crash-course-2tnm oe1115723, 3.09 PM DELVINY SlaUe CUrLeNe Witt 2p 1y_DULL Spring Boot Rest Guide Header Photo by wu yi on Unsplash Top comments (0) Code of Conduct Here is a post you might want to check out Regex for lazy developers Soring Boot- Crash course -DEV Community PRE Report abuse fr RR T KNOW PRESSIONS BR ~ Soa A Sorry for the callout @ Ji Rl a K e Marcos M: |am an experienced Developer, Trainer, and eventu Iipsidevlathegroolpring-boot-crash-course-2tnm al Speaker. 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