{"id":103,"date":"2022-06-10T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valerio.nu\/?p=103"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:32:34","slug":"create-a-spring-boot-project-in-vs-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valerio.nu\/index.php\/2022\/06\/10\/create-a-spring-boot-project-in-vs-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a spring-boot project in Visual Studio Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this tutorial we show how to create a new spring-boot project in Visual Studio Code using a wizard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring Initializr built-in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The way we would normally create a new Spring boot project is to open the Spring Initializr<\/a> in a browser, input a few parameters, download the project and import it in our IDE of choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Visual Studio Code the process is much simpler as Spring Initializr’s functionality is wrapped in the extensions that we installed in the first article of this series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REST endpoint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now let’s add a simple REST endpoint to our project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep things simple we go for a GET with two text parameters, needle and haystack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annotation @GetMapping isn’t contained in the libraries that we imported so it breaks the project immediately. That is to be expected, this annotation is contained in the spring-web<\/a> artifact so we need to import it in our pom.xml file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we are clearly missing the IntelliJ IDEA functionality to guess which artifact we need to import and find a way to solve the issue for us. Instead, we are forced to: leave the editor, search on the web to which artifact the annotation belongs to and add that artifact manually to our project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IntelliJ would have solved this for us in one click so it’s quite underwhelming that VS Code doesn’t have a similar functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n