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Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

By : Mohamed Shazin Sadakath
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Book Image

Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

4 (1)
By: Mohamed Shazin Sadakath

Overview of this book

Spring Boot is a lightweight framework that provides a set of tools to create production-grade applications and services. Spring Boot 2.0 Projects is a comprehensive project-based guide for those who are new to Spring, that will get you up to speed with building real-world projects. Complete with clear step-by-step instructions, these easy-to-follow tutorials demonstrate best practices and key insights into building efficient applications with Spring Boot. The book starts off by teaching you how to develop a web application using Spring Boot, followed by giving you an understanding of creating a Spring Boot-based simple blog management system that uses Elasticsearch as the data store. Next, you’ll build a RESTful web services application using Kotlin and the Spring WebFlux framework - a new framework that enables you to create reactive applications in a functional way. Toward the last few chapters, you will build a taxi-hailing API with reactive microservices using Spring Boot, in addition to developing a Twitter clone with the help of a Spring Boot backend. To build on your knowledge further, you’ll also learn how to construct an asynchronous email formatter. By the end of this book, you’ll have a firm foundation in Spring programming and understand how to build powerful, engaging applications in Java using the Spring Boot framework.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Demonstrating Bloggest

In order to run the Bloggest web application, it requires that the Elasticsearch data store be up and running. The following command can be used to start Elasticsearch:

$ <Path to Elasticsearch>/bin/elasticsearch

When everything is put together, build and run the Bloggest, which you will be able to access using the http://<host>:<port> URL.

There are several ways to run a Spring Boot application, some of them are mentioned here:

  • Running the Spring Boot application main class using an IDE.
  • Building a JAR or WAR file using the following Maven command and then running:
$ mvn clean install
$ java -jar target/<package-name>.[jar|war]
  • Running using a Spring Boot Maven plugin:
$ mvn clean spring-boot:run

After running, the Bloggest web application will show the List Articles page as follows:

In this page, the header, footer, and right...