Spring-boot Review

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Being a Spring project Boot benefits of all Spring's PRO still being much much simpler to prototype and develop with. Much like Grails, Boot let's you develop with convention over configuration in mind,

SpecsUpdate

PlatformsCross-platform

Written inJava

Repositoryhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot

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Pros

Pro
Inherits all of Spring's strengths

Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.

Pro
Preconfigured starters

Pro
Fast prototyping

Spring boot is built for fast prototyping.

Pro
Kick down to Spring

Cons

Con
Lacking in UI development

While actually very good and with a very complete and rich feature set to develop and maintain code on the server side, it still doesn't provide any rich framework for building good user interfaces.