Creating our First Spring Boot Application
Explore how to create a basic Spring Boot application by generating a web project with Spring Initializer, importing it into an IDE, and running it locally. Understand the structure of a simple RESTful service that returns a hardcoded list and prepare to extend functionality in subsequent lessons.
What we’ll build
We will now build the Elite Club application, which any browser can connect to.
The initial version of the application will expose one RESTendpoint to return the hardcoded list of Elite Clubs. The subsequent chapter will be improving the application by adding new features.
What we’ll need
For this, we will need an Integrated Developer Environment (IDE). ...