Java Spring Boot Example

A Java Spring Boot containerized API example

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
• Contributing

Overview

Technologies used:

• Java: Object Oriented Programming Language
• Spring Boot: Java-based web framework for developing microservices
• MySQL: Database that holds the Task data
• Docker: containerize the API and Database for local development
• Maven: a project management tool

For local development, we use Docker to containerize the API and MySQL database

Prerequisites

• Install Java 17 (OpenJDK 17.0.2)
  • via Chocolately for Windows
  • via Homebrew for Mac
• Install Docker (Desktop and CLI)
  • via Chocolately for Windows
  • via Homebrew for Mac
• (Optional) Install Docker VSCode Extension. Helps with Syntax highlighting and autocompletion.

Getting Started

• Clone repo
• Run make start at the top level directory to build and run the API and MySQL docker containers
• Other make targets:
  • make stop: stops and removes the docker containers

Contributing

I appreciate feedback and contribution to this repo! Feel free to create a PR with your changes. I plan to add additional things like a PR template, etc. to make the contribution process more formal.