Spring Boot has a lot of starters that are already a part of the Spring Boot family. This chapter will provide you with an overview of http://start.spring.io/, available starter modules, and will also show you how to make a project Bootiful, as Josh Long likes to call it.
In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:
- Using a Spring Boot template and starter
- Creating a simple application
- Launching an application using Gradle
- Using the command-line runners
- Setting up a database connection
- Setting up a data repository service
- Scheduling executors
