Top 20 Spring Boot 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>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

Spring Boot starters include all necessary dependencies related to a specific theme (like web…