Spring Initializr Java Support

Overview

Spring Initializr is a lightweight extension to quickly generate a Spring Boot project in Visual Studio Code (VS Code). It helps you to customize your projects with configurations and manage Spring Boot dependencies.

Feature List

• Generate a Maven/Gradle Spring Boot project
• Customize configurations for a new project (language, group id, artifact id, boot version and dependencies)
• Search for dependencies
• Quickstart with last settings
• Edit Spring Boot dependencies of an existing Spring Boot project

Requirements

• VS Code (version 1.19.0 or later)
• JDK (version 1.8.0 or later)

Install

Open VS Code and press F1 or Ctrl + Shift + P to open command palette, select Install Extension and type vscode-spring-initializr.

Or launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl + P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install vscode-spring-initializr

Use

• Launch VS Code
• Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open command palette.
• Type Spring Initializr to start generating a Maven or Gradle project.
• Follow the wizard.
• Right click inside the pom.xml or gradle.build file and choose Edit starters for dependency refactoring.

Configuration

  // Default language.
  "spring.initializr.defaultLanguage": "Java",

  // Default value for Artifact Id.
  "spring.initializr.defaultArtifactId": "demo",

  // Default value for Group Id.
  "spring.initializr.defaultGroupId": "com.example",

  // Spring Initializr Service URL(s). If more than one url is specified, it requires you to select one every time you create a project.
  "spring.initializr.serviceUrl": [ "https://start.spring.io/" ],

  // Default value for Packaging. Supported values are "JAR" and "WAR".
  "spring.initializr.defaultPackaging": "JAR",
  

Feedback and Questions

You can find the full list of issues at Issue Tracker. You can submit a bug or feature suggestion, and participate community driven

License

This extension is licensed under MIT License.

Data/Telemetry

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Contributing

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.