Spring Boot Local Development Setup

Steps for setting up backend (Spring Boot) project on Windows

Prerequisites

Java JDK
- Download and Install Java 11 Oracle SDK (not free for production)
- Add environment variable of installed JDK (either option is fine)
  - Add JAVA_HOME : path\jdk-11.0.4
  - Add Java to Path : path\jdk-11.0.4\bin
Above step is needed for Maven in order to recognize where Java is located
Maven
- Download Maven
- Install it by unpacking it
- Add Maven to Path environment variable: path\apache-maven-3.6.1\bin
Start the application
- Clone git repo
- Open in terminal spring-react/spring
- Run mvn spring-boot:run
- As a result application will run on port 8080

Prerequisites

Java JDK
- Download and Install Java 11 Oracle SDK (not free for production)
- Add environment variable of installed JDK (either option is fine)
  - Add JAVA_HOME : path\jdk-11.0.4
  - Add Java to Path : path\jdk-11.0.4\bin
Above step is needed for Maven in order to recognize where Java is located
Maven
- Download Maven
- Install by unpacking
- Add Maven to Path environment variable: path\apache-maven-3.6.1\bin
Eclipse
- Download Eclipse
- Install by unpacking
- Run Eclipse
- Create a new Workspace Spring React Guide
- Set Maven location: Window>Preferences>Maven>Installations>Add Select folder with unpacked maven from step 2
Clone git repo
Running Project
- Running with Maven
  - Right click on the project
  - Run As
  - Maven build...
  - For goal enter spring-boot:run
  - Run
    - This will pull dependencies if anything is missing
- Running as Java application
  - Right click on the project
  - Run As
  - Java Application
  - Find class EvolvingTodoApplication.java
    - This will not pull dependencies if anything is missing (to pull dependencies build workspace or execute maven goal clean install)
- As a result application will run on port 8080