Starting the server
In this section, we will now attempt to run our Spring Boot application on our server but first, let’s have a recap of the previous chapter: we learned how to configure Spring Data JPA and connect our application to our PostgreSQL database, and—most importantly—we have installed all of the needed dependencies in our application. These are all prerequisites before running the Spring Boot application.
In the following examples, we will be using an application named spring-boot-superheroes. We will generate a new Spring Boot application using Spring Initializr with the same dependencies. Throughout developing our application, we will also show you several ways to write the different parts of your API, such as how to write models, services, and controllers. These are the most common ways used now in the industry. Still, first things first: let’s proceed with running our Spring Boot application.
We assume that you have already generated...
