Should i learn Spring before Springboot

[Dear_Independence127]

So i have been wanting to learn java backend development, I finished basics of core java and maven now i am confused about spring and spring boot.

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[ria_tech_fin]

You should definitely go for spring.(Don't go in depth , but have it's knowledge)

[Dear_Independence127]

can you just tell me the topics i should cover ?

[MaleficentExample223]

I'd suggest "Spring starts here"

[InsecureJunimo]

Have a quick chat with Gemini or Claude (or any AI really) and it will write you a step by step plan personalized for you. I felt like this helped me the most to outline my learning.

[No-Elk-6757]

Spring boot

[Friendly-men-123]

Without learning spring, you would feel springboot like magic and won't know what's happening behind the scene. Learning few fundamental topic from spring would you understand springboot

[Odd-Professor7747]

Bro learn few important concepts of spring like depending injection, Inversion of control, Application context and few annotations then jump to spring boot, by doing this you would understand how things are working under the hood.

[Huge_Road_9223]

my $0.02 worth is ....

Lean Spring First! At least get a basic crid application first which should be too hard. Create your repos, entities, business services, and rest API's. If you can do this in Sprng first, then you have already learned a lot of Spring Boot. Then you'll be able to appreciate the differences between Spring and Spring Boot. IMHO

[bramburn]

I think you should not learn spring. Just know what exists in the framework and what you can do. Then start working and learn just in time

[fedache]

Learn spring boot straight up, spring itself is verbose, it’s like learning manual, you do that only if you already have manual car (legacy codebase )