A tiny Springboot app

March 15, 2019

This miniblog is adpated from this linkedin course

The tweet that started it all

Install springboot cli

Easiest way is via sdkman.

sdk install springboot

Groovy classFile:

ThisClassWillActuallyRun.groovy

@Controller
class ThisWillActuallyRun {
    @RequestMapping("/")
    @ResponseBody
    String home() {
        "Hello World!"
    }
}

Running the app:

spring ThisWillActuallyRun

Output:

  .   ____          _            __ _ _
 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.3.RELEASE)

2019-03-15 00:26:53.437  INFO 1091 --- [       runner-0] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Starting application on sysadm-Latitude-5480 with PID 1091 (started by sudipbhandari in /home/sudipbhandari)
2019-03-15 00:26:53.452  INFO 1091 --- [       runner-0] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default

Verifying Output:

curl localhost:8080
Hello World!%