Spring Boot CLI

It is a tool which you can download from the official site of Spring Framework. Here, we are explaining steps.

Download the CLI tool from official site as we are doing here.

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After downloading, extract the zip file. It contains a bin folder, in which spring setup is stored. We can use it to execute Spring Boot application.

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CLI executes groovy files. So, first, we need to create a groovy file for Spring Boot application.

Open terminal and cd into the bin location of cli folder.

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Create a groovy file.

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Create a controller in the groovy file.

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Execute this file

By using the following command.

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After executing the above command, it starts the execution and produces the following output.

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And after lots of lines. It shows the current status of application as follow.

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This project is running on the port 8080. So, we can invoke it on any browser by using the following url.

It will produce the following output.

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