From Zero to Lil’ Hero: Your First Production-grade API With Spring Boot 3 in 60 Minutes
Spoiler: the right tools, libraries, and techniques make it possible.
Why I Love Spring Boot
Spring® the world’s most popular Java framework from VMware (spring.io) makes backend programming (e.g., creating APIs) easy, fast, safe and IMO absolutely fun — in short: simply awesome.
Why all these hymns of praise? As a coder, you don’t have to worry about ‘low-level’ Java coding and management stuff or repetitive tasks. Yeah, you can even benefit considerably from many stable preconfigured libraries.
Boost 1: Just use them as building blocks and build your app with them without having to reinvent every little piece from scratch.
Shall I tell you a secret? It is very, very likely (especially as a newbie) that you are neither the first nor the best one who ever wrote this piece of code.
So, why don’t you rely on code that has been used 10,000 times, tested, and mostly bug-fixed? I know it’s fun to find out how to do it yourself. However, this way, you won’t be very fast or productive in coding —and, what is most important, the resulting code (at least the first versions) will most likely not be very…
