Creating the backend scaffold with Spring Initializr
To generate the backend scaffold, instead of creating Maven's pom.xml file manually from scratch, we can use Spring Initializr to generate a Spring Boot application for us. To do that, let's go to https://start.spring.io and switch to the full version by clicking the Switch to the full version link, and then fill in form with the following parameters:
- Group:
com.taskagile - Artifact:
app - Name:
TaskAgile - Description:
Open source task management tool - Package Name:
com.taskagile - Dependencies:
Web,Thymeleaf,JPA, andDevTools
After that, all we need to do is click the Generate Project button, as shown in Figure 8.1:
Figure 8.1: Spring Initializr
File structure
Once Spring Initializr finishes the generation of the skeleton of the backend of our TaskAgile application, we can see the following structure:
.
├── .gitignore
├── .mvn
│ └── wrapper
│ ├── maven-wrapper.jar
│ └── maven-wrapper.properties
├── mvnw
├── mvnw.cmd
├── pom.xml
└── src
├── main
...
