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Create Spring Boot Java Project Skeleton
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Create Spring Boot Java project promptCheck Java versionDownload Spring Boot project templateUnzip the downloaded fileRemove the downloaded zip fileChange directory to the project rootAdd additional dependenciesAdd SpringDoc, Redis, JPA and MongoDB configurationsSpringDoc configurationsRedis configurationsJPA configurationsMongoDB configurations
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---
name: create-spring-boot-java-project
description: 'Create Spring Boot Java Project Skeleton'
---
# Create Spring Boot Java project prompt
- Please make sure you have the following software installed on your system:
- Java 21
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- If you need to custom the project name, please change the `artifactId` and the `packageName` in [download-spring-boot-project-template](#download-spring-boot-project-template)
- If you need to update the Spring Boot version, please change the `bootVersion` in [download-spring-boot-project-template](#download-spring-boot-project-template)
## Check Java version
- Run following command in terminal and check the version of Java
```shell
java -version
```
## Download Spring Boot project template
- Run following command in terminal to download a Spring Boot project template
```shell
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.zip \
-d artifactId=${input:projectName:demo-java} \
-d bootVersion=3.4.5 \
-d dependencies=lombok,configuration-processor,web,data-jpa,postgresql,data-redis,data-mongodb,validation,cache,testcontainers \
-d javaVersion=21 \
-d packageName=com.example \
-d packaging=jar \
-d type=maven-project \
-o starter.zip
```
## Unzip the downloaded file
- Run following command in terminal to unzip the downloaded file
```shell
unzip starter.zip -d ./${input:projectName:demo-java}
```
## Remove the downloaded zip file
- Run following command in terminal to delete the downloaded zip file
```shell
rm -f starter.zip
```
## Change directory to the project root
- Run following command in terminal to change directory to the project root
```shell
cd ${input:projectName:demo-java}
```
## Add additional dependencies
- Insert `springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui` and `archunit-junit5` dependency into `pom.xml` file
```xml
org.springdoc
springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui
2.8.6
com.tngtech.archunit
archunit-junit5
1.2.1
test
```
## Add SpringDoc, Redis, JPA and MongoDB configurations
- Insert SpringDoc configurations into `application.properties` file
```properties
# SpringDoc configurations
springdoc.swagger-ui.doc-expansion=none
springdoc.swagger-ui.operations-sorter=alpha
springdoc.swagger-ui.tags-sorter=alpha
```
- Insert Redis configurations into `application.properties` file
```properties
# Redis configurations
spring.data.redis.host=localhost
spring.data.redis.port=6379
spring.data.redis.password=rootroot
```
- Insert JPA configurations into `application.properties` file
```properties
# JPA configurations
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=rootroot
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.format_sql=true
```
- Insert MongoDB configurations into `application.properties` file
```properties
# MongoDB configurations
spring.data.mongodb.host=localhost
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=admin
spring.data.mongodb.username=root
spring.data.mongodb.password=rootroot
spring.data.mongodb.database=test
```
## Add `docker-compose.yaml` with Redis, PostgreSQL and MongoDB services
- Create `docker-compose.yaml` at project root and add following services: `redis:6`, `postgresql:17` and `mongo:8`.
- redis service should have
- password `rootroot`
- mapping port 6379 to 6379
- mounting volume `./redis_data` to `/data`
- postgresql service should have
- password `rootroot`
- mapping port 5432 to 5432
- mounting volume `./postgres_data` to `/var/lib/postgresql/data`
- mongo service should have
- initdb root username `root`
- initdb root password `rootroot`
- mapping port 27017 to 27017
- mounting volume `./mongo_data` to `/data/db`
## Add `.gitignore` file
- Insert `redis_data`, `postgres_data` and `mongo_data` directories in `.gitignore` file
## Run Maven test command
- Run maven clean test command to check if the project is working
```shell
./mvnw clean test
```
## Run Maven run command (Optional)
- (Optional) `docker-compose up -d` to start the services, `./mvnw spring-boot:run` to run the Spring Boot project, `docker-compose rm -sf` to stop the services.
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