Lesson 3 of 8Article17 min

Project Setup and Configuration

Bootstrapping a project

Use Spring Initializr with Web, JPA, Validation dependencies.
Set metadata: group, artifact, Java version.
Externalize config using `application.yml` or `application.properties`.

Basic application.yml

server:
  port: 8080

spring:
  datasource:
    url: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/rishtaara
    username: postgres
    password: postgres
  jpa:
    hibernate:
      ddl-auto: update
    show-sql: true

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