generator-gradle-springboot

Why another gradle and springboot based generator?

Gradle has great scafolding capabilities for quickly bringing up a multi-module setup. There are few gaps here:

• app is not a spring-boot based application.
• Adding more than two library or api project.
• The names of the library, api and app projects/modules are not configurable

The SpringInitializr helps in generating springboot based application with all the dependencies you need. In a way addresses the first issues but then how would add this generated app to existing build chain.

Gradle-Springboot generator

This plugin bridges the gap by enabling you to leverage multi-module setup capability of gralde with springboot based applications. You can declare the names of your library/api and application projects and the generator will scafold the code generated by gradle. In case of an application it adds basic @SpringbootApplication annotation to the main class.

This plugin also utilizes Gradle's buildSrc conventions and appropriately scafolds library and application project's build.gradle files.

Installation

First, install Yeoman and generator-gradle-springboot using npm (we assume you have pre-installed node.js).

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-gradle-springboot

Then generate your new project:

yo gradle-springboot

Demo

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License

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