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Installing the Spring Boot CLI with OSX Homebrew

View Spring Boot docs ↗️

$ brew update
$ brew tap pivotal/tap
$ brew install springboot
$ spring help

Create a Spring Boot REST application

Open a Terminal/CLI to begin.

1. Create a a Maven pom.xml file:

   $ atom pom.xml

2. Copy and paste the following XML into the pom.xml document:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   
     <groupId>com.example</groupId>
     <artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
     <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   
     <parent>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
       <version>1.5.8.RELEASE</version>
     </parent>
   
     <!-- Additional lines to be added here... -->
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </project>

3. Confirm installation:

   $ mvn dependency:tree

Run a Spring Boot application

Open a Terminal/CLI to begin.

1. From the same directory that hosts your pom.xml file, run:

   $ mvn spring-boot:run

2. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080.

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