Spring Boot Fundamentals

by Kesha Williams

Spring Boot, an extension of the Spring framework, helps developers build applications quickly, with less code, by removing much of the boilerplate code and configuration that characterizes Spring. This course explores features of Spring Boot.

What you'll learn

Spring Boot is an extension of the Spring framework that helps developers build simple and web-based applications quickly, with less code, by removing much of the boilerplate code and configuration that characterizes Spring. This course, Spring Boot Fundamentals, explores major features of Spring Boot, including Spring Initializr, auto-configuration, application development, data access, testing, Actuator, GraphQL integration and more. First, you will learn how to configure a Spring MVC application. Then, you will discover how to develop a RESTful API and build a GraphQL server. Finally, you will gain an understanding of how to make your application production ready. When you are finished with this course, you will have mastered Spring Boot to make development faster and deployment easier.

About the author

Kesha Williams is an award-winning software engineer with over 20 years' experience specializing in full0stack web development using Java, Spring, Angular and Amazon Web Services (AWS). She routinely leads innovation teams in researching emerging technologies and speaks about her learnings at technical conferences across the globe. She has taught thousands of software developers in the US, Europe and Asia while teaching at the university level. In her spare time, she leads the Georgia chapte... more

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