// field notes
Older notes I'd rather keep than delete.
A small archive of long-form tutorials I wrote on dev.to and reflectoring.io between 2019 and 2020 — back when I was learning Spring Boot in public. The APIs and versions have moved on; the shape of the thinking still reads to me. Migrated here as-is, with their original publication dates.
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4 entries.
Sorted newest first. Code blocks are inlined where dev.to used gists.
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'Code First' API Documentation with Springdoc and Spring Boot
Generate OpenAPI documentation from Spring Boot code using Springdoc — a fast path from running endpoints to a published Swagger UI.
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API-First Development with Spring Boot and Swagger
Specify the API before writing code, then generate Spring Boot interfaces and models from the OpenAPI document with the OpenAPI Maven plugin.
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Getting started with Spring WebFlux and R2DBC
A short tour of Spring Data R2DBC and a reactive REST API in Kotlin — non-blocking access to a relational database with Spring Boot 2.2.
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Getting started with RSocket in Spring Boot
A walkthrough of building a Producer/Consumer pair with the early RSocket support in Spring Boot — request/response and streaming over a single connection.