Spring Boot | Code Quality

Improve your Spring Boot code readability by 237%

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Developing a Spring Boot application involves more than just writing code; it requires adhering to best practices to ensure maintainability, scalability, and overall robustness. In this article, we’ll explore nine essential practices to enhance your Spring Boot projects.

1. Divide the project into specific packages

Don’t just put everything in the same package or different things in packages that don’t have a correlation with them.

If you are developing a CRUD application, divide your packages precisely so that you and other developers can maintain and scale it with ease.

This is an example:

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├── config
│   └── SwaggerConfig
├── controller
│   └── LogController
├── dto
│   ├── response
│   │   └── APIResponse
│   └── LogDTO
├── exception
│   └── CustomExceptionHandler
├── model
│   └── Log
├── repository
│   └── LogRepository
├── service
│   └── LogService
├── utils
│   ├── Constant
│   └── Utils
├── Main

In this way, we are putting

• Every model class in the…