Production ready Starter-kit for Spring Boot applications.

Table of Contents

• Philosophy
• Medium Articles
• Spring Boot
• Application
• Database Schema
• Technology
• Application Structure
• Run Locally
• Run Insider Docker
• API Documentation
• User Interface
• Contributor
• License

Philosophy

A lot of work has gone into Spring Boot to reduce complexity and dependencies, which largely alleviates our previous reservations. If you live in a Spring ecosystem and are moving to microservices, Spring Boot is now the obvious choice. Spring Boot allows easy set up of standalone Spring-based applications. Its ideal for pulling up new microservices and easy to deploy. It also makes data access less of a pain due to the hibernate mappings with much less boilerplate code.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can just run. We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Think of Spring Boot as a well-organized kitchen where all the necessary tools and ingredients are readily available, and all you need to do is follow a recipe. The ingredients (libraries) are already chosen for you, which makes cooking (development) not only easier but also faster! You don’t need to worry about finding the right pot (web server) because it comes built into your kitchen (the Spring Boot framework). If you decide to change the menu (customize your application), you can easily swap out ingredients and utensils (customize configurations), giving you flexibility without sacrificing convenience.

Application

This starter kit focuses on using Spring Boot following the best practices recommended by Spring Framework 5.0, ensuring the code is loosely coupled and that all the layers in the application are independent. The core use case implemented is a Bus Reservation System, which includes an Admin portal operated via browsers and a series of REST APIs for interaction with mobile or frontend applications.

Running the server locally

To start working with your Spring Boot application, you’ll need to package it first. Here’s how you do it:

• Use Maven to build the project: mvn package or mvn install.
• Once built, run your Spring Boot application using: java -jar target/springboot-starterkit-1.0.jar.
• Alternatively, run it with the Maven plugin: mvn spring-boot:run.

After starting your server, you can access the admin interface at: http://localhost:8080

Running the server in Docker Container

To run this application inside a Docker container, follow these steps:

• Build your Docker image with: docker build -t springstarterkit .
• Run the Docker container with: docker run -p 8080:8080 springstarterkit

Troubleshooting

Here are a few troubleshooting tips if you run into issues:

• If you get an error saying the application cannot connect to MongoDB, ensure that MongoDB is running locally or update your configuration with the right database connection string.
• If you experience performance issues, check the resources allocated to your Docker container.

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