Demystify Spring Boot (Part 2)

Building an API in Spring that connects to a MariaDB database

Jordan Williams
Better Programming
Published in
9 min readDec 30, 2020

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Spring is a framework that allows you to create enterprise-level applications. The problem arose where it took many configurations to get an initial application up. This is where Spring Boot came along.

“Spring Boot allows you to abstract (hide) these configurations. So you can get a…

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