Introducing Spring Boot

Spring Boot is an open source micro framework from Pivotal. It is an enterprise-level framework for developers to create standalone applications on Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). Its primary focus is to shorten your code so that it’s easier for you to run your application.

The framework extends the Spring Framework, which provides you with a more opinionated way of configuring your applications. In addition, it comes with built-in autoconfiguration capabilities that configure both the Spring Framework and third-party packages based on your settings. Spring Boot uses this knowledge to avoid code errors at configuration time as it reduces boilerplate code when you’re setting up our application.

Now, let’s discuss the main advantages of using Spring Boot.