Create A New Project

Let's begin building our Restaurant Review Platform by creating a new Spring Boot project.

The Spring Initialzr will help us set up a project with all the dependencies we need, saving us time and ensuring we follow best practices from the start.

Using Spring Initialzr

Spring Initialzr is a web-based tool that generates Spring Boot projects with your chosen configuration.

Visit start.spring.io in your web browser.

On the form, select the following options:

Project: Maven
Language: Java
Spring Boot: 3.4.2
Packaging: Jar
Java: 21

For the project metadata, enter:

Group: com.devtiro
Artifact: restaurant
Name: devtiro
Description: Restaurant Review Platform
Package name: com.devtiro.restaurant

Adding Dependencies

The dependencies we select will add the required libraries to our project.

Click the "ADD DEPENDENCIES" button and add these dependencies:

Spring Web - For building REST APIs
Spring Security - For securing our application
OAuth2 Resource Server - For Keycloak integration
Spring Data Elasticsearch - For search functionality
Validation - For input validation
Lombok - For reducing boilerplate code

Generating the Project

Once you've selected all the dependencies, click the "GENERATE" button.

This will download a ZIP file containing your project.

Extract the ZIP file to your preferred workspace location.

Summary

Created a new Spring Boot project using Spring Initialzr
Selected Java 21, Maven, and Jar packaging format
Added required dependencies for building a Restaurant Review Platform
Generated and downloaded the project
Project is ready for development with all necessary dependencies