Spring Boot

Spring Boot #

To display dynamic data on web pages, the page usually sources it from a server running a back-end framework. While python’s got plenty of back-end frameworks that are easy to use (e.g., FastAPI), Spring Boot seems to be more popular and more performant. Might be a good idea to learn that. Apparently, it is the next iteration of the Spring Framework. So I should probably look into that first.

What’s Spring #

Spring is a collection of projects like Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security etc. Spring Framework is the most popular Java framework. What exactly does it do? Let’s find out.

Learning Journey #

As usual, there’s a helpful Pluralsight course to get an overview and pratcise: Spring Framework: Spring 5 Fundamentals

Go through the Baeldung Spring tutorial.

One of the core concepts seems to be that of dependency injection. Baeldung’s got a tutorial for that! Dependency Injection in Spring

Finally, time to learn Spring Boot. Spring Boot tutorial and a project too.

What project? A shopping cart with the Punk API

// TODO: seems like there should be more projects

Some offical resources:

Fun stuff #

Here’s some fun stuff to read:

  • What distinguishes REST from other architectures? HATEOAS

  • How to manage JDK installations on your Linux machine? Use SDKMAN!. Which is sort of like nvm but it also manages versions of Java SDKs like Gradle, Groovy, Scala, Apache Tomcat etc. Sounds more like apt now.

What’s more, it lets you set SDKs per project too.