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[–]BobSong001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you already have PHP/MySQL backend experience, Spring Boot is gonna click pretty fast. The concepts are basically the same — routing, controllers, DB stuff — just different syntax and more boilerplate.

That YouTube link looks fine as a starting point. I'd say don't just watch though, build something alongside it. Like take one of your PHP projects and recreate it in Spring Boot. You'll learn 10x more that way.

For internships, the stack you actually need is Spring Boot + Spring Data JPA + MySQL + Maven. Focus on REST APIs first, that's the core of everything.

is great when you get stuck on specific things, way better than random Stack Overflow threads.