- Run
./mvnw spring-boot:run. This will probably error, keep reading. - You might run into issues with it not finding your JAVA_HOME or M2_HOME. These need to point to the place where your jdk are and the place on your machine this is located (respectively). Here's a screencap of my environment variables: Env Variables
- You may also run into issues with the
./mnvwscript not finding your mvn binary file, you'll have to add it to your path: My Path - You can find out if your system can find the mvn binary file by running
mvn -v. If a bunch of version information pops up, you're gucci. If not, it still can't find it :( There's a lotta reasons this might happen. I'd be happy to help ya troubleshoot if it's needed. - When
./mvnw spring-boot:runworks, you'll see the Spring ascii art when you run it. You should be able to visithttp://localhost:8080and see a page served there.
- The warning about skipping an optional dependency and the single empty error msg that gets logged during startup is expected behavior.
- If you run into an error that says the port is already in use when trying to run the server, run
netstat -ano | findstr 8080to find the process id that is hogging the port, and thentaskkill /F /PID <Process ID>to kill it - If you run into weird git crap where the
src/main/resources/static/builtdirectory keeps tracking changes so you can't change branches this is a temporary fix. This should not happen if you're on master, or have merged from master after our first setup sesh, please let me know if it does.
- Here's a pretty cool video on Spring Boot, you can skip the groovy stuff and start at like 4:45, the relevant bits are done by about 45:00. Really cool seeing the package built step by step. Please Please let me know if I can help explain anything in there.
- Here's the tutorial the package is based on Did I read the whole thing? Hell no. But if you cntrl-f a class that's doing something confusing, it'll probably have a pretty good explanation of what's going on.