Chapter 10. Quick Start with Java

Working with Spring Boot is like pair-programming with the Spring developers.

– Josh Long @starbuxman

Perhaps you've heard about Spring Boot? It's cultivated the most popular explosion in software development in years. Clocking millions of downloads per month, the community has exploded since its debut in 2013.

I hope you're ready for some fun, because we are going to take things to the next level as we use Spring Boot to build a social media platform. We'll explore its many valuable features, all the way from the tools designed to speed up development efforts to production-ready support as well as cloud-native features.

Despite some rapid fire demos you might have caught on YouTube, Spring Boot isn't just for quick demos. Built atop the de facto standard toolkit for Java, the Spring Framework, Spring Boot will help us build this social media platform with lightning speed and stability.

Also, this book will explore a new paradigm introduced in Spring Framework...