Spring Boot
- Spring Boot is a project built on top of the Spring Framework.
- We can easily create standalone, production-grade Spring-based applications using Spring Boot.
- It provides a simpler and faster way to set up, configure, and run simple and web-based applications.
- It provides multiple production-ready features such as health checks and metrics that help to monitor and manage your application.
Problems with Spring
- It is a vast framework, so sometimes it’s challenging to start application development.
- We must follow many setup steps to configure Spring applications and other resources like databases.
- We have to follow multiple steps to build and deploy applications.
Benefits of Spring Boot
- It makes it easier to get started with Spring application development.
- A minimal amount of configuration is required to develop and deploy applications.
- It provides an embedded HTTP server, so we don’t need to configure the server externally.
- Spring Boot is specially used to create microservices because it is lightweight, and deployment is easy.
- You can easily integrate other projects like Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Spring Batch, etc., into Spring Boot.
- It is possible to manage different environments like development, non-prod, and production with the help of externalize configuration properties.
- Since it is a part of the Spring ecosystem, it has strong and active community support.
Spring Boot Starters
- Spring Boot Starters are pre-configured with the most commonly used dependencies.
- If we have Spring Boot Starters, then manual configuration of these dependencies is not required.
- It reduces development time by adding compatible libraries to our Spring application.
