2

Creating a Web Application with Spring Boot

In Chapter 1, Core Features of Spring Boot, we learned about how Spring Boot comes with several powerful features including, autoconfiguration, starters, and configuration properties. Combined with managed dependencies, it becomes easy to upgrade to supported versions of Spring portfolio components as well as third-party libraries.

With the help of start.spring.io, we’ll learn the basics of creating a web application using Spring Boot. This is vital because the following chapters of this book will build upon this foundation. Since the majority of application development today is focused on web applications, learning how Spring Boot streamlines the whole process will open the door to building apps ...

Get Learning Spring Boot 3.0 - Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.