Your First Spring Boot Application

In this tutorial we will use IntelliJ IDEA to create your first "Hello World" Spring Boot application. We'll also discuss what's in your project and why. Spring Boot is a way to create Spring applications easily with some abstractions, some of which we'll touch on in this tutorial.

Creating your Spring Boot Project

Using the IntelliJ IDEA New Project Wizard to create your Spring project and select dependencies.

Walking Through Your Spring Boot Project

Let's take a look at what IntelliJ IDEA has created for us and why.

Creating your Spring Controller

Using the IntelliJ IDEA New Project Wizard to create your Spring Controller and select dependencies.

Testing Your Spring Boot Application

Let's add a test to check the content being served locally

Summarising Your Spring Boot Project

There are some resources in this section that you can take a look at.