SpringBoot Kickstart

is a Yeoman generator that creates a basic SpringBoot application with basic authentication, Thymeleaf, javax.mail and MongoDB. Bootstrap 4 (alpha 4) is used on the frontend side. Since v1.0.1 you can choose between Bootstrap 4 and 3.3.6 but keep in mind that the frontend HTML is still for Bootstrap 4 and may look shitty.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Kickstart but was inspired by Bootstrap Kickstart.

Table of Contents

• Quick install guide
• Running the app
• Docker Integration

Quick install guide

You need to have Node.js installed.

$ npm install -g yo
$ npm install -g generator-springboot-kickstart
$ yo springboot-kickstart

Running

1. Create directories for mongodb: $ mkdir data && mkdir data/db && mkdir log
2. Create keystore: $ ./generateKeygen.sh (chmod it, if it's not executable)
3. Update settings in /src/main/resources/application.properties especially the keystore related
4. Start MongoDB: $ mongod --config mongodb.conf
5. Start the webapp (instructions for IntelliJ below, for cmdline use google)

I recommend setting the following environment variables when developing:

deleteRoot=true
resetSettings=true

When using those, you'll have a clean setup after every build and a new root user is created every launch.

Using IntelliJ IDEA

The generated app can run without problems using the following run configuration:

Docker

Since 1.3.0 there will be two new files created: docker-compose.yml and docker/Dockerfile. Those contain everything you need to run the webapp inside Docker.

Since 1.3.1 Docker is optional.

Since 1.3.2 there is a script to start the docker stuff.

Please note that you need the latest version of Docker compose for this, because I'm using the new config file format.

Please note that this will not run in Mac OS X or Windows, because MongoDB can't handle vboxfs.

To run your app as a Docker container you need to follow this steps:

1. Start the webapp at least once to make sure there are no errors
2. (you can skip this, if you used the keygen script) Edit line 20 of the Dockerfile and replace the ../development.pkcs12 with the name of the keystore you are using
3. In the root directory of your project run docker-compose build in a terminal and let it build the needed images
4. Still in the root directory run docker-compose up
5. Go to http://[your-docker-host]:8080