Spring Boot Snippets for VS Code

This extension for Visual Studio Code adds useful snippets for Spring Boot. These are especially useful for creating REST apis, and configuring database connection properties.

Usage

For a detailed walkthrough, please use this youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI7hTw8aMaU

Type part of a snippet, press enter, and the snippet unfolds.

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Space (Windows, Linux) or Cmd+Space (macOS) to activate snippets from within the editor.

Java Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
spring-crudctrl	Spring controller with CRUD actions implemented
spring-crudrepo	Spring Data JPA CRUD repository with REST api annotation
spring-jparepo	Spring Data JPA repository with REST api annotation
spring-entity	JPA entity with ID field
spring-lombok-entity	JPA entity with ID field and Lombok @Data annotation
spring-ctrl-getall	Controller GET action for collection
spring-ctrl-getone	Controller GET action for single item
spring-ctrl-post	Controller POST action
spring-ctrl-put	Controller PUT action
spring-ctrl-delete	Controller DELETE action

application.properties / application.yaml Snippets

Snippet	Purpose
spring-sqlite	SQLite database jdbc url and properties
spring-sqlserver	SQL Server database jdbc url and properties
spring-oracle	Oracle database jdbc url and properties
spring-postgresql	PostgreSQL database jdbc url and properties
spring-mysql	MySQL database jdbc url and properties
spring-h2	H2 database jdbc url and properties

Installation

1. Install Visual Studio Code 1.44.0 or higher
2. Launch Code
3. From the command palette Ctrl-Shift-P (Windows, Linux) or Cmd-Shift-P (OSX)
4. Select Install Extension
5. Choose the extension
6. Reload Visual Studio Code