Using start.spring.io to build apps
The world is littered with different web stacks and toolkits for building web applications and they all come with hooks and modules to tie into various build systems.
But none had the trend-setting notion to help us put together a barebones application directly.
In the past, before Spring Boot entered the scene, we would do one of the following actions to start off a new project:
- Option 1: Comb through stackoverflow.com, looking for a sample Maven build file
- Option 2: Dig through reference documentation, piecing together fragments of build XML, hoping they would work
- Option 3: Search various blog sites authored by renowned experts, praying one of their articles contains build details
Oftentimes, we had to contend with out-of-date modules. We may have attempted to apply a configuration option that no longer existed or did not do whatever we needed it to do.
As part of the emergence of Spring Boot came a related website...
