Learning Spring Boot

Running our unsecured application

It's important to point out that nothing has been secured yet. Instead, let's first get familiar with our app. Time to fire things up! Take a look at this command:

$ ./gradlew bootRun

Tip

You might not see bootRun ever reach 100 percent and yet be reachable. This could be a quirk in spring-boot-gradle-plugin. Don't worry about it.

Now, with our browser, let's visit the list of teams at http://localhost:8080/teammates.

What can be seen in this snapshot of our browser? Take a look:

• We see Roy and Phil listed with hyperlinks
• We can enter the details of a new player
• Finally, there is an All Teammates link, which is a proverbial ...