Learn Spring: Building an App

Learn about the underlying technology, Beans and Boot, that support the Spring framework to build out an app.
Continue your Spring learning journey with Learn Spring: Building an App. You'll learn how Spring uses Bean to manage objects, how Spring Boot's collection of tools to build applications quickly, and how to add a database using Spring Data JPA and JDBC. Then you'll use all you've learned to create a Spring API!



### Skills you’ll gain
* Explain and utilize Spring technologies: Bean and Boot.
* Implement basic CRUD functionality.
* Incorporate and query a database into a Spring REST API.


### Notes on prerequisites
We recommend that you complete [Learn Spring: Fundamentals and Controllers](https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-spring-fundamentals-and-controllers) before starting this course.

• Boots and Beans: Learn about the technology underlying the Spring framework: Spring beans and Spring Boot
• Article: What is a Spring Bean?
• Article: What is Spring Boot?
• Data Strategies: Learn best practices for handling data in Spring applications
• Article: What is CRUD?
• Article: Spring Data Options
• Spring Data and JPA: Add a database to your Spring application
• Lesson: Add a Database with JPA
• Lesson: Custom Queries with JPA
• Quiz: REST Services with JPA
• Project: The Boots Bootique
• ExternalResource: Working with the H2 Console
• Informational: Next Steps