Getting Started with Spring Boot 2 (Udemy.com)
Start building Spring Framework 5 & Spring Boot 2 applications today!
Created by: Dan Vega
Last updated March 2022
What you will learn
- The new features in Spring Boot 2 and Spring Framework 5
- Spring MVC
- Spring Security & Thymeleaf
- Spring Data JPA
- Spring Boot Essentials
How it compares
Against the other 101 rated Udemy courses in Java Spring Framework on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 7% of them
- Reviews517#77 of 102 by number of reviews
- Length12.9 hourslonger than 58% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2022earlier than 76% of them
Course Description
While we are creating this application together we will take a look at some of the new features Spring Framework 5 & Spring Boot 2 have to offer. By taking this course you will have the latest skills that you need to build real applications using the Spring Framework.
What is Spring Boot?
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".
Spring Boot takes an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
Build anything with Spring BootSpring Boot is the starting point for building all Spring-based applications. Spring Boot is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible, with minimal upfront configuration of Spring.
Get started in seconds using Spring InitializrBuild anything - REST API, WebSocket, Web, Streaming, Tasks, and moreSimplified SecurityRich support for SQL and NoSQLEmbedded runtime support - Tomcat, Jetty, and UndertowDeveloper productivity tools such as live reload and auto restartCurated dependencies that just workProduction-ready features such as tracing, metrics and health statusWorks in your favorite IDE - Spring Tool Suite, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeansWho this course is for:
Java Developer - You should be familiar with the Java Programming language. You don't need to be a rockstar (I certainly am not) but you should have an intermediate understanding.
Web Developer - While you don't need to know Spring to get started you should have some experience building web applications. If you have experience using another MVC framework that's even better but it's not required.
Heard of Spring - You don't need prior experience with Spring but if you have at least heard of it and understand what it is that will help you out.
New Features - You are interested in seeing some of the new features in Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2.
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
517 Reviews
Dan Vega
Hi, Im Dan Vega. I am a Software Engineer living just outside of one of my favorite places in the world, Cleveland, OhioI am a self-taught programmer who firmly believes that you can accomplish anything in this life if you put your mind to it, roll up your sleeves, and are willing to put in the work.
I have been writing software for over 20+ years now and I use my knowledge, passion, and influence to help other developers achieve their goals. I teach online and currently, have over 115,000 students.
When I am not writing software I have a number of things that really keep me busy. I love to read books, listen to podcasts, and watch online courses. I have a real thirst for knowledge and it consumes me every single day of the week. I also love to run & lift heavy weights which keep me balanced throughout the week.
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Reviews
By Chenhui Ouyang on 10/16/2020
Great course. Very helpful and clear
By Iurii Nedostup on 10/9/2020
The idea of the course is really good and practical, but the way how it's presented could be improved: lots of copy-pasting or back and force with the code which is very misleading. Because of that is hard to code along: you have to stop the video, go to documentation, and type it from there(if you wanna learn stuff you better type it, this works not for everyone though).
Tests topic is completely missing, but we deployed to prod. I'd invest more time into the dev environment using docker: mock MySQL, mail service, etc.
Loading test data prposed way looks kinda weird to me
By Bianca Eugenia Sozzi on 9/5/2020
In general I liked the course and found it useful, although I think that the thymeleaf part could have been shorter and there could have been more focus in the logic and possibilities with Voting and Comments
By Richard Ashby on 8/18/2020
A very good course. It's quite fast paced but covers alot of ground without getting too bogged down in minutiae that some courses are prone to do. Well done Dan.
By Kosmas Deligkaris on 8/13/2020
I have done this course to completion. Overall, it is a very useful course, as are other courses by Dan Vega.
It is a project-based course, so you will end up with a functional product, and can utilize the choices made/overall structure and ideas in your subsequent projects.
As a practical course, it is not focused on explaining every little detail about the Spring/Spring boot framework but rather to get you up and running. I personally found the level of detail enough to understand the majority of the choices made.
The course is not perfect though, and I did get stuck a few times, also raising the issue on the course's github repository.
By Patricio on 6/24/2020
The educator makes unintentionally mistakes along the course and instead of editing the video out, he solves it 10 minutes later or even in a completely different lesson making the pacing of the chapter awful , is not once or twice, happens ALL THE TIME.
Also the documentation for the last part of the course is completely MISSING, so probably you will be out of your 30-days policy by that time and you will be screw.
This is my first one star review
By Hunter Murphy on 5/19/2020
Very good course, I'm using it to get better educated on the tools and things I will use in my job.
By Kamlesh Patel on 5/4/2020
This s a great course that you can follow along while developing your Application. It's also great to get extra information on step being performed.
By Vanius Roberto Bittencourt on 4/24/2020
Many videos should be re-recorded. The instructor makes mistakes and corrects during the lesson, this causes a lot of confusion in learning. I do not recommend.
By Konstantine Muradov on 3/12/2020
Excellent course. I have purchased other Spring 5 & Boots 2 corse and got lost because poor explanation and juggling from topic to topic without clean step by step strategy. Dan has done great job with this course and I liked documentation with references very much. The only thing I would recommend is whenever author is coding please increase editor's/video recording - screen size, sometimes it is hard to follow when you watch the course on laptop (imho my personal opinion)
By Chris Gilbride on 2/9/2020
Great course which gives a marvellous introduction to Spring Boot. As a bonus, you are also introduced to Thymeleaf for templating, H2 and MySql for DB access and Amazon AWS for the production environment.
The great thing about this course is you get to build a web application from start to finish. You do need to do your own investigations and reading to add to the information that Dan gives to ensure you have a proper understanding of what works and why.
Another good thing is that Dan is not afraid to show when things don't go as expected. That is so comforting to see that you're not the only one who gets things wrong. :-)
By Huang on 1/17/2020
Great
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