RADUS#1 - Create Spring Boot App

To develop REST API's we will be using a spring boot to quickly bootstrap an application and add all the dependencies needed to develop the API's

Different ways of creating a spring boot app:

CLI (Command Line Interface)
IDE (Eclipse, IDEA, STS...)
The above two are not so popular but most developers create spring application using the web app start.spring.io

start.spring.io provides different options while creating the application. You can choose:

Project: Maven, Gradle
Language: Java, Kotlin, Groovy
Spring Boot Version
Project Metadata

Group
Artifact
Name
Description
Package Name
Packaging (Jar, War)
Java version

Dependencies - Based on the application type you're developing you can choose different dependencies to include in your project

Here's a screenshot of an example project i'm creating:

select all the options as shown above
click Generate and this will download a zip file of the project
import the project into an IDE that supports Spring Boot apps

For reference, the demo project i'll be using can be found here

Happy Coding 👨‍💻

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