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Something has never been this difficult for me to grasp. It is not just entering.

I thought that since spring boot does a lot for you, by abstracting a lot of stuff I'll just have to focus on the things that matter but still I am still not understanding anything. 😅

The reason I wanna learn spring-boot is to add a powerful framework for handling backends to my repository. But hmmm.....

Do we have spring boot Devs here?

Deicide:
Something has never been this difficult for me to grasp. It is not just entering.

I thought that since spring boot does a lot for you, by abstracting a lot of stuff I'll just have to focus on the things that matter but still I am still not understanding anything. 😅

The reason I wanna learn spring-boot is to add a powerful framework for handling backends to my repository. But hmmm.....

Do we have spring boot Devs here?

I did Spring boot in the past at ISW, nothing heavy, maybe I can assist to a degree, what about it ?

qtguru:


I did Spring boot in the past at ISW, nothing heavy, maybe I can assist to a degree, what about it ?

Why did you stop and how did you learn it?

Deicide:
Why did you stop and how did you learn it?

I resigned from work, and move on to other stacks

Deicide:
Something has never been this difficult for me to grasp. It is not just entering.

I thought that since spring boot does a lot for you, by abstracting a lot of stuff I'll just have to focus on the things that matter but still I am still not understanding anything. 😅

The reason I wanna learn spring-boot is to add a powerful framework for handling backends to my repository. But hmmm.....

Do we have spring boot Devs here?

Are you learning with the documentation?

jesmond3945:

Are you learning with the documentation?

Yes but am lost as it is somewhat scattered. Or maybe am looking at the wrong place.

qtguru:


I resigned from work, and move on to other stacks

It wasn't paying well? I would imagine that for a Spring Dev the salary should be quite high enough to cover the stress.

Deicide:
Yes but am lost as it is somewhat scattered. Or maybe am looking at the wrong place.

Is more like a guide and not structured but it gets you up and ready. I will say learn it with 🔇some project in mind. However, are you proficient with java programming?
Spring just helps you with your Model, view and controller architecture

jesmond3945:

Is more like a guide and not structured but it gets you up and ready. I will say learn it with 🔇some project in mind. However, are you proficient with java programming?
Spring just helps you with your Model, view and controller architecture

I am proficient with Java but for my learning I want to use Kotlin 😅

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I am proficient with Java but for my learning I want to use Kotlin 😅

okay there is a particular guide for kotlin there

Deicide:
I am proficient with Java but for my learning I want to use Kotlin 😅

You build your spring boot web apps with Java or Kotlin using spring boot initializr

Deicide:
It wasn't paying well? I would imagine that for a Spring Dev the salary should be quite high enough to cover the stress.

it was a Naira salary then

qtguru:


I did Spring boot in the past at ISW, nothing heavy, maybe I can assist to a degree, what about it ?

I've a graduate trainee video interview with them tomorrow Sir, any valuable tips?
I'd be graduating in June/July and I only have a surface understanding of Spring boot.

OP, learn Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Data, Spring security, Spring Cloud, Servlets, JDBC and Hibernate) first before moving on to Spring boot. Spring boot relies so much on annotations and abstractions which Spring would open your eyes to with XML configurations. You'd need to understand how the spring application context is initialised and how spring beans are managed by the application context. Also, dependency injection and inversion of control should be your best friends.

Luckydonalds:
OP, learn Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Data, Spring security, Spring Cloud, Servlets, JDBC and Hibernate) first before moving on to Spring boot. Spring boot relies so much on annotations and abstractions which Spring would open your eyes to with XML configurations. You'd need to understand how the spring application context is initialised and how spring beans are managed by the application context. Also, dependency injection and inversion of control should be your best friends.

Exactly Spring boot Auto-scanning and bean configuration, Read this book by Manning OP Spring boot in Action.

Note: I was told Spring boot adopted Servlet API, but I think some aspect where Servlet is exposed, like Filter chain. I used this package Quartz, SimpleJDBC Stored Procedure, Jackson. I really enjoyed Spring so much, It made no sense writing PHP. Interswitch exposed me to alot, with docker, you can fire multiple instances. Follow this man on Twitter Alex Adeyemo, he built an SSO for Interswitch.

Deicide:
Something has never been this difficult for me to grasp. It is not just entering.

I thought that since spring boot does a lot for you, by abstracting a lot of stuff I'll just have to focus on the things that matter but still I am still not understanding anything. 😅

The reason I wanna learn spring-boot is to add a powerful framework for handling backends to my repository. But hmmm.....

Do we have spring boot Devs here?

Yh sure.

Deicide:
Something has never been this difficult for me to grasp. It is not just entering.

I thought that since spring boot does a lot for you, by abstracting a lot of stuff I'll just have to focus on the things that matter but still I am still not understanding anything. 😅

The reason I wanna learn spring-boot is to add a powerful framework for handling backends to my repository. But hmmm.....

Do we have spring boot Devs here?

Read this book: “Spring boot start here”

Alphabyte1:


You build your spring boot web apps with Java or Kotlin using spring boot initializr

I know how to setup project 🙃

Kvngfrosh:

Read this book: “Spring boot start here”

omo that book is expensive I don't have the money now. To spend that amount on a book

Luckydonalds:
OP, learn Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Data, Spring security, Spring Cloud, Servlets, JDBC and Hibernate) first before moving on to Spring boot. Spring boot relies so much on annotations and abstractions which Spring would open your eyes to with XML configurations. You'd need to understand how the spring application context is initialised and how spring beans are managed by the application context. Also, dependency injection and inversion of control should be your best friends.

This was actually the path I wanted to follow. Though I am already conversant with JDBC and servelet. But the idea is that I would have learnt all this for nothing though I'll understand how things work. But those knowledge wouldn't be required when working with spring boot cause of abstraction. Also most companies use Spring Boot instead of just Spring if am making any sense.

Luckydonalds:

I've a graduate trainee video interview with them tomorrow Sir, any valuable tips?
I'd be graduating in June/July and I only have a surface understanding of Spring boot.

Baelung is your guy when it comes to Spring, and watch alot of Youtube, Spring is mostly plain Java Objects and annotation, I found Laravel to be complex than Spring Boot, once i covered the basic of Spring, it was easy to use for work. but I'm no Spring boot expert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35EQXmHKZYs

Always search for anything on Youtube, Youtube has most of the answers placed here.

Deicide:
I know how to setup project 🙃

Take a look at the repo at the link


https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/7385642/spring-boot-tutorial-beginners#120531792

Spring Boot isn't quite hard to master, it's the time for it that matters.
Learning a skill is the new gold, esp if you want to relocate abroad.

Interested in founding a tech startup in Europe to make your relocation easier? lets twitter via @buukstay

So far so good, Spring is not as difficult as I thought. Infact I m wondering why people don't use it much as compared to Nodejs. It's way more performant and scales way more Better!

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So far so good, Spring is not as difficult as I thought. Infact I m wondering why people don't use it much as compared to Nodejs. It's way more performant and scales way more Better!

See it's easier than Laravel as far as I am concerned. Plain Old Java and nothing else

qtguru:


See it's easier than Laravel as far as I am concerned. Plain Old Java and nothing else

Haha laravel, I don't know if I'll ever touch that

Deicide:
So far so good, Spring is not as difficult as I thought. Infact I m wondering why people don't use it much as compared to Nodejs. It's way more performant and scales way more Better!

Depends on the use case, yea maybe for services that involve lots of extensive computation, but nodejs single-threaded non-blocking approach makes it somewhat more performant than the traditional REST spring-boot [Springweb running on an embedded tomcat ] except you want to integrate other spring projects like SpringWebflux or SpringBatch.

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omo that book is expensive I don't have the money now. To spend that amount on a book

drop your mail or dm let me forward the book

Nastydroid:
drop your mail or dm let me forward the book

[email protected] thank you.

Deicide:
thank you.

done

I'm a junior java developer that has been using spring boot for about 1 year and 8 months now. It was really challenging learning it at the beginning. Everything just seemed so complicated. A lot of tutorials and articles teaching are outdated online. Spring security is literally one of the most complicated things I've ever had to learn. Documentation and tutorials on it are not straightforward at all. Another problem I have with spring is the errors you see on your console, they can be hard to read and understand at times.

Olamyyde:
I'm a junior java developer that has been using spring boot for about 1 year and 8 months now. It was really challenging learning it at the beginning. Everything just seemed so complicated. A lot of tutorials and articles teaching are outdated online. Spring security is literally one of the most complicated things I've ever had to learn. Documentation and tutorials on it are not straightforward at all. Another problem I have with spring is the errors you see on your console, they can be hard to read and understand at times.

I’m also a junior Java developer and from my personal experience, the easiest way to understand the Spring framework is by reading books.
Manning has several books on the Spring framework. Pertaining security, you should definitely read Spring Security in action.