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create-spring-boot-java-project

Create Spring Boot Java Project Skeleton

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$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill create-spring-boot-java-project

Summary

  • Generate a Spring Boot 3.4.5 project skeleton with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Docker Compose.
  • Scaffolds a Maven-based Spring Boot project with Java 21, including Lombok, Spring Data JPA, Spring Web, caching, and validation dependencies Pre-configures application.properties with connection details for PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB, plus SpringDoc OpenAPI for API documentation Generates a docker-compose.yaml file with Redis 6, PostgreSQL 17, and MongoDB 8 services, each with persistent volumes and default credentials Adds ArchUnit for architecture testing and springdoc-openapi for Swagger UI integration out of the box Requires Java 21, Docker, and Docker Compose installed locally; customizable project name and Spring Boot version via template parameters

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SKILL.md

Create Spring Boot Java project prompt

  • Please make sure you have the following software installed on your system:

- Java 21 - Docker - Docker Compose

  • If you need to custom the project name, please change the artifactId and the packageName in [download-spring-boot-project-template](#download-spring-boot-project-template)
  • If you need to update the Spring Boot version, please change the bootVersion in [download-spring-boot-project-template](#download-spring-boot-project-template)

Check Java version

  • Run following command in terminal and check the version of Java
java -version

Download Spring Boot project template

  • Run following command in terminal to download a Spring Boot project template
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.zip \
  -d artifactId=${input:projectName:demo-java} \
  -d bootVersion=3.4.5 \
  -d dependencies=lombok,configuration-processor,web,data-jpa,postgresql,data-redis,data-mongodb,validation,cache,testcontainers \
  -d javaVersion=21 \
  -d packageName=com.example \
  -d packaging=jar \
  -d type=maven-project \
  -o starter.zip

Unzip the downloaded file

  • Run following command in terminal to unzip the downloaded file
unzip starter.zip -d ./${input:projectName:demo-java}

Remove the downloaded zip file

  • Run following command in terminal to delete the downloaded zip file
rm -f starter.zip

Change directory to the project root

  • Run following command in terminal to change directory to the project root
cd ${input:projectName:demo-java}

Add additional dependencies

  • Insert springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui and archunit-junit5 dependency into pom.xml file
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
  <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui</artifactId>
  <version>2.8.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.tngtech.archunit</groupId>
  <artifactId>archunit-junit5</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.1</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Add SpringDoc, Redis, JPA and MongoDB configurations

  • Insert SpringDoc configurations into application.properties file
# SpringDoc configurations
springdoc.swagger-ui.doc-expansion=none
springdoc.swagger-ui.operations-sorter=alpha
springdoc.swagger-ui.tags-sorter=alpha
  • Insert Redis configurations into application.properties file
# Redis configurations
spring.data.redis.host=localhost
spring.data.redis.port=6379
spring.data.redis.password=rootroot
  • Insert JPA configurations into application.properties file
# JPA configurations
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=rootroot
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.format_sql=true
  • Insert MongoDB configurations into application.properties file
# MongoDB configurations
spring.data.mongodb.host=localhost
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.authentication-database=admin
spring.data.mongodb.username=root
spring.data.mongodb.password=rootroot
spring.data.mongodb.database=test

Add docker-compose.yaml with Redis, PostgreSQL and MongoDB services

  • Create docker-compose.yaml at project root and add following services: redis:6, postgresql:17 and mongo:8.

- redis service should have - password rootroot - mapping port 6379 to 6379 - mounting volume ./redisdata to /data - postgresql service should have - password rootroot - mapping port 5432 to 5432 - mounting volume ./postgresdata to /var/lib/postgresql/data - mongo service should have - initdb root username root - initdb root password rootroot - mapping port 27017 to 27017 - mounting volume ./mongo_data to /data/db

Add .gitignore file

  • Insert redisdata, postgresdata and mongo_data directories in .gitignore file

Run Maven test command

  • Run maven clean test command to check if the project is working
./mvnw clean test

Run Maven run command (Optional)

  • (Optional) docker-compose up -d to start the services, ./mvnw spring-boot:run to run the Spring Boot project, docker-compose rm -sf to stop the services.

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