Spring Boot also provides a command-line tool that can be used to quickly write Spring applications. You can run Groovy scripts with Spring Boot CLI. Groovy code has almost zero boilerplate code compared with Java.
The Spring Boot documentation says:
"You don't need to use the CLI to work with Spring Boot but it's definitely the quickest way to get a Spring application off the ground."
Spring Boot's CLI gives you more free time from having to add starter dependencies and auto-configuration to let you focus only on writing your application-specific code. We have seen this in this chapter in the Groovy script HelloController. We can run this Groovy script with Spring Boot CLI.
Spring Boot CLI is a smart tool, because in the ...
