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Spring Boot
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Spring Boot

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What is 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.

Spring Boot is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Spring Boot Pros & Cons

Pros of Spring Boot

  • ✓Powerful and handy
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Java
  • ✓Spring
  • ✓Fast
  • ✓Extensible
  • ✓Lots of "off the shelf" functionalities
  • ✓Cloud Solid
  • ✓Caches well
  • ✓Many receipes around for obscure features

Cons of Spring Boot

  • ✗Heavy weight
  • ✗Annotation ceremony
  • ✗Java
  • ✗Many config files needed
  • ✗Reactive
  • ✗Excellent tools for cloud hosting, since 5.x
  • ✗Java 😒😒
  • ✗Still difficult

Spring Boot Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Spring Boot?

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Django

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET

.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

Laravel

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Android SDK

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

Rails

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Spring Boot Integrations

Strongbox, Spring MVC, Apache Camel, Spring Security, Spring and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Spring Boot. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Spring Boot.

Strongbox
Strongbox
Spring MVC
Spring MVC
Apache Camel
Apache Camel
Spring Security
Spring Security
Spring
Spring
Java
Java
Spring Batch
Spring Batch
Undertow
Undertow
Log4j
Log4j
Apache CXF
Apache CXF
JSTL
JSTL
Ratpack
Ratpack

Spring Boot Discussions

Discover why developers choose Spring Boot. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 2 of 5 discussions.

Gonçalo Faustino
Gonçalo Faustino

Staff SRE

Dec 22, 2018

Needs adviceonDockerDockerRed Hat OpenShiftRed Hat OpenShiftSonarQubeSonarQube

We use Docker for our #DeploymentWorkflow along with Red Hat OpenShift SonarQube Sonatype Nexus GitLab Vault Apache Maven AngularJS Spring Boot

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Sander Verhagen
Sander Verhagen

Apr 4, 2017

Needs adviceonSpring BootSpring Boot

Probably the best application framework in Java, by far. Time-proven, mature. Spring-Boot

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