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🌱 Spring Boot Interview Series – Q3💡:Top 5 Spring Boot Starters Every Developer Should Know 🚀 🤯🐿️

🔥 5 Commonly Used Spring Boot Starters

In Spring Boot, starters are like ready-made combo meals 🍔🍟 — instead of ordering every ingredient separately, you just pick a starter and get all required dependencies in one go!
Here are the top 5 starters you’ll use in real projects:

  1. 📌 spring-boot-starter-web
    ➡ Used for building RESTful web apps & MVC applications.
    Includes: Spring MVC, Jackson (for JSON), Embedded Tomcat server.

  2. 📌 spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
    ➡ For working with databases using JPA & Hibernate.
    Includes: Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and JDBC driver dependencies.

  3. 📌 spring-boot-starter-security
    ➡ Adds authentication & authorization to your app.
    Includes: Spring Security framework with default login handling.

  4. 📌 spring-boot-starter-test
    ➡ For writing unit & integration tests.
    Includes: JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test framework, AssertJ, Hamcrest.

  5. 📌 spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf
    ➡ For building server-side HTML views.
    Includes: Thymeleaf template engine & Spring MVC integration.

💡 Pro Tip: You can mix and match multiple starters in your project. They save you from searching Maven Central for each library and figuring out version compatibility. 🚀

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