Essential Spring Boot Snippets

This extension is optimized for developers who wants to develop Java Spring Boot applications. These code snippets contains Java and EditorConfig snippets.

This extension is still in progress. Let me know if you have any suggestion! Thanks!

Features

• Provide Java, Controller, EditorConfig, JPA and VSCode User Settings snippets
• Provide DTO snippets with Lombok & spring-boot-starter-validation dependency
• Bundled with some must needed VSCode extensions

Code Snippets

Spring Boot (java)

The api-dto snippet need lombok and spring-boot-starter-validation dependencies been installed in the project.

Spring Data JPA (java)

Spring Boot Properties (spring-boot-properties)

Spring Boot Properties - YAML (spring-boot-properties-yaml)

Java (java)

EditorConfig (editorconfig)

VSCode User Settings (json)

Apache Maven POM File (xml)

Extensions

This extension bundled with some MUST needed VSCode extensions for Java Spring Boot developments.

• Extension Pack for Java

  • Language Support for Java™ by Red Hat
    • Code Navigation
    • Auto Completion
    • Refactoring
    • Code Snippets
  • Debugger for Java
    • Debugging
  • Java Test Runner
    • Run & Debug JUnit/TestNG Test Cases
  • Maven for Java
    • Project Scaffolding
    • Custom Goals
  • Project Manager for Java
    • Manage Java projects, referenced libraries, resource files, packages, classes, and class members
  • IntelliCode
    • AI-assisted development
    • Completion list ranked by AI

• Spring Boot Extension Pack

  • Spring Initializr Java Support

    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.

  • Spring Boot Dashboard

    With an explorer in the side bar, you can view and manage all available Spring Boot projects in your workspace. It also supports the features to quickly start, stop or debug a Spring Boot project.

  • Spring Boot Tools

    Provides validation and content assist for Spring Boot application.properties, application.yml properties files. As well as Boot-specific support for .java files.

• Java Decompiler

  This extension allows you to decompile Java class files.

• Lombok Annotations Support for VS Code

  A lightweight extension to support Lombok annotations processing in Visual Studio Code

• Dependency Analytics

  Dependency Analytics is powered by Snyk Intel Vulnerability DB, it is the most advanced and accurate open source vulnerability database in the industry. That adds value with the latest, fastest and more number of vulnerabilities derived from numerous sources.

• Live Preview

  Viewing target/site or JaCoCo report can use this extension very easily.

• XML

  XML Language Support by Red Hat.

• YAML

  YAML Language Support by Red Hat, with built-in Kubernetes syntax support.

  Spring support two types of configuration: application.properties and application.yml

• REST Client

  REST Client for Visual Studio Code. Really useful tool. You should definitely try it.

• EditorConfig for VS Code

  EditorConfig Support for Visual Studio Code

I also recommend the following extensions you MIGHT need.

• Linting

  • Checkstyle for Java

    Provide real-time feedback about Checkstyle violations and quick fix actions

  • SonarLint

    SonarLint helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code in Java.

• Server Connectors

  • Community Server Connectors

    Connects vscode with open source community-driven servers and runtimes. Supported servers includes Apache Tomcat [ 5.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 ], Apache Karaf [ 4.8 ], Apache Felix [ 3.2 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 6.0 ], Jetty [ 9.x ], Glassfish [ 5.x ], Websphere Liberty [ 21.x ]

• Java Tools

  • Gradle Language Support

    Add Gradle language support for Visual Studio Code

  • Gradle Tasks

    Run Gradle tasks in VS Code

  • Quarkus

    Quarkus Tools for Visual Studio Code is a feature-packed extension tailored for Quarkus application development within Visual Studio Code. You can quickly get started by using the extension's project generation and project debugging feature. The extension also provides amazing language features (completion, hover, validation etc.) for your project's application.properties file.

• Containers and Microservices

  • Docker

    Build docker images and work with image registries.

  • Kubernetes

    It provides an explorer view to manage clusters and the nodes inside. It also provides advanced syntax support for editing Kubernetes manifest files.

• Workbench

  • Todo Tree

    Show TODO, FIXME, etc. comment tags in a tree view

  • Output Colorizer

    Syntax highlighting for log files

  • Material Icon Theme

    Material Design Icons for Visual Studio Code

• Git Version Control

  • Git Extension Pack

    Popular Visual Studio Code extensions for Git version control including GitLens, gitignore and Git Graph.

Recommended VSCode User Settings

• settings.json

  {
      "java.debug.settings.hotCodeReplace": "auto",
      "java.saveActions.organizeImports": true,
      "editor.foldingImportsByDefault": true
  }
  

• .vscode/launch.json

  {
      "configurations": [
          {
              "type": "java",
              "request": "launch",
              "name": "Launch Spring Boot",
              "mainClass": "${workspaceFolder}/src/main/java/com/example/demo1/Demo1Application.java",
              "envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/.env"
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Remember change mainClass to your class that contains main() method.

Contributing

If you need any Java / Spring Boot snippets, please feel free to send PRs to me or simply drop me a note! 😊

Enjoy!