README.md

Java / Spring Boot

What do I already know about it?
- Java
  - General Purpose Programming Language
  - Cross Platform
    - Java is compiled to IL (bytecode)
    - Java compiled code runs on top of the JVM
    - Anywhere the JVM runs... java programs can run
  - Garbage Collected
  - Statically Typed
  - OOP - Objected Oriented Programming
- Spring
  - Framework for building Java Applications
  - Provides many guides / opinions / conventions / built in libraries for doing all the web service things we would want to do
  - Web
    - Similar to NestJS
    - Similar to ExpressJS
What is it?
- Spring is an ecosystem of packages / projects / modules
- Spring Boot
  - part of the Spring ecosystem, provides an opinionated way of building backend web apps
- Spring Data
  - provides data access
Why should we use it?
- An integrated and full featured ecosystem
- Can do many things, microservices, serverless, batch processing etc.
What can we compare it to?
- PHP / Laravel
- Python / Django
- Ruby / Rails
- C# / .NET Web API
- Node.js / AdonisJS
- Node.js / NestJS