1. Clone the application

https://github.com/corasaniti/spring-boot-rest-api-tutorial.git

2. Create Mysql database

create database spring_rest_demo

3. Change mysql username and password as per your installation

• open src/main/resources/application.properties

• change spring.datasource.username and spring.datasource.password as per your mysql installation

4. Build and run the app using maven

Build With Maven command

mvn package

Alternatively you can use batch file to clean and build application

• set M2_HOME and JAVA_HOME in build.properties
• execute clean.bat
• execute build.bat

Launch Application with

java -jar target/spring-boot-rest-demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

5. Run Without Build

You can run the app without packaging it using -

mvn spring-boot:run

The app will start running at http://localhost:8080.

The app defines following CRUD APIs.

GET /api/v1/users

POST /api/v1/users

GET /api/v1/users/{userId}

PUT /api/v1/users/{userId}

DELETE /api/v1/users/{userId}