Spring Boot in Visual Studio Code

I use Visual Studio Code for everything these days. In the past couple of months alone I have used it for HMTL, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Spring, C#, Go, Vue, Angular, and TypeScript.

A few folks were surprised when I told them that I was doing Java + Spring Boot development in VS Code so I thought I would put a video together to show it off.

In this video, I will create a new Spring Boot Project in Visual Studio Code. Then we will add a REST API controller that our front end project can talk to. Finally, we will create a simple Vue project that talks to our Spring Boot backend.

Here is the video along with the extensions you should install.

Extensions:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Pivotal.vscode-boot-dev-pack
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscjava.vscode-java-pack

Anyone else using Visual Studio Code for Spring Development? Are you facing any issues, got any tips?

Comments

[Esperanza Cutillas Rastoll]

I tried to move from eclipse IDE to vscode but I had to use a tomcat to deploy a spring application and I was not able to do it on VSCode. I will try this on a personal project some day :)

[Yuri Mednikov]

Switched from Idea to VSCode for Java development couple of months ago - and I don't regret.

[Matt Brown]

Been doing Spring Boot on a Raspberry Pi with a Linux flavored version of Studio Code called Code-OSS.

[Raghavan alias Saravanan Muthu]

interesting to hear. Code-OSS is a separate flavor of VS Code?

[Matt Brown]

Yes.

[michelemauro]

I use VSCode for Boot development on Windows. Biggest issues are the not-up-to-par Kotlin support (we are experimenting with it as a next-step-Java and for Android programming) that forces me to use JIdea, and sometimes the less-than-functional shell integration.

Gradle integration got better lately, so some problems went away. And the overall lightness of the tool wins, at the end.

[Anand Kadhir]

I am using VS code for Angular, Java, Oracle and Remote SSH development activities.

We can use this below extension for Oracle developments.
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
It is no way better than SQL Developer but I hope Oracle will be working on the improvement of this extension.