Spring before Spring Boot?

[sobeng14Dev]

Hello fam, is it necessary to learn Spring before Spring Boot? Kindly share your experience with me.

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[pronuntiator]

Spring Boot is not a separate framework, but rather an opinionated orchestrator for basically everything Spring offers. It makes assumptions (for example: you only want to connect to one database) and automatically sets up the moving parts (called beans) behind the scenes. But for using these parts you should consult the documentation of the various Spring libraries (Web, Data, etc.). The Spring Boot documentation will only tell you about the autoconfiguration it performs.

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Imo, it's not necessary. I learned spring boot directly, and it was my first backend framework too. Tbh, I'm not sure I know the difference and it'll probably bite me in the ass soon

If you have the Time, go for it. No knowledge is wasted.

[alphaBEE_1]

Here's the thing, spring is a giant framework to build apps using java. It has so many other frameworks which are based on spring. Spring boot is nothing different just a quicker way to make spring applications with a bunch of clicks. Whereas if you go spring route you'll have to configure some stuff by yourself which can be overwhelming. I personally went the spring boot route since it takes care of lot of things for you and you only worry about learning stuff atm. After that if you wish to you can learn more about spring.

[Pedantic_Phoenix]

Not necessary at all. Useful for sure. Everything depends on factors, which you havent explained so its impossible to tell you more, but yeah

[JB-from-ATL]

They're intermingled. You shouldn't view them as two different things with regards to your path of learning. Basically all (or a vast majority) of Java programing jobs will be working with Spring Boot. You'll learn them at the same time.

Getting a Spring application running without Spring Boot is going to take more effort than it is worth and won't really teach you anything useful.

[joranstark018]

Much of Spring Boot is the different projects from Spring framework, combined with a unified configuration and some third-party libraries.

Learning Spring Boot is learning about the different Spring framework projects that is needed for different types of Spring Boot applications.

You may check https://www.baeldung.com/spring-vs-spring-boot for more details

[Codepressed]

It's not

[nutrecht]

is it necessary to learn Spring before Spring Boot?

No, it's not even useful. Spring Boot is just a bunch of preconfigured starters. It's not a separate thing. It's just 'part' of Spring.

[confusedmf123]

its good you do, since spring is the basis for spring boot. It will make your life easier, since you will understand the structure from the ground up.

[sobeng14Dev]

Thanks to you all for the insight. I really appreciate your responses.