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: . ____ _ __ _ _ /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __ __ _ \ \ \ \ ( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \ \\/ ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| | ) ) ) ) ' |____| .