Generating the project

Open your browser on the Initializr landing page:

https://start.spring.io/

As you can see, the configuration wizard appears as shown in the following screenshot:

We will configure our project like this:

  • Generate a Gradle Project with Kotlin and Spring Boot 2.0.0 M4
  • Set the Group project to com.journaler
  • Set the Artifact project to api

The following screenshot shows the project configuration:

We will keep our first configuration simple and extend it later as we progress and need more dependencies. Press the Generate ...

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