Spring Boot Application

This one walks you through the standard Spring Boot stack with proper separation of concerns: JPA entities, Spring Data repositories, service layers, REST controllers, and Spring Security config. It's opinionated about doing things the Spring way, with dependency injection, transaction boundaries, and DTOs instead of exposing entities directly. The reference guides cover each layer separately, which is helpful if you're setting up a new project or teaching someone the architecture. Honest take: it's pretty comprehensive for the typical CRUD API with auth, but if you're already comfortable with Spring conventions, you might just need the security or JPA sections as a reference.

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$ npx -y skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill spring-boot-application --agent claude-code

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Overview

Develop production-ready Spring Boot applications with proper annotation-based configuration, dependency injection, REST controllers, JPA data persistence, service layers, and security implementation following Spring conventions.

When to Use

Building Spring Boot REST APIs
Implementing service-oriented architectures
Configuring data persistence with JPA
Managing dependency injection
Implementing Spring Security
Building microservices with Spring Boot

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

<!-- pom.xml -->
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>api-service</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0</version>
    </parent>

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