Top 20 Spring Boot Best Practices for Java Developers

20 Important Spring Boot and REST API Best Practices for Java Developers

Spring Boot simplifies the development of Spring applications with its convention over configuration approach and many out-of-the-box solutions for common application needs. In this article, I explained 20 important Spring Boot and REST API best practices for developers, each illustrated with “Avoid” and “Better” examples.

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1. Use Spring Boot Starters

Avoid: Manually configuring Spring dependencies in your pom.xml or build.gradle.

<!-- Example with Maven -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>5.3.9</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Additional individual Spring dependencies -->

Better: Utilize Spring Boot starters to handle dependency management.

<!-- Example with Maven -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>…