Summary

In this chapter, we gave a quick introduction to Quarkus and saw what its main advantages and breakthroughs for the Java ecosystem are. We created a new Quarkus project using the Quarkus website and opened it in IntelliJ IDEA. We reviewed the contents and structure of the bootstrapped project. We checked the dependencies, plugins, and the provided source code, and we learned how to package and run the sample application.

You should now have a broad view of Quarkus and be ready to start implementing the full-stack web application that we’ll be developing throughout the book. In the next chapter, we’ll see how to add a persistence layer to the task manager application, define the entity classes, and connect it to a database.