In this chapter, you will learn about the fundamentals of Spring Boot. At the heart of Spring Boot lies the Spring Framework, which Spring Boot extends to make auto-configuration, among other features, possible.
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications that you can “just run.” We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration. ...
