Free Spring Boot Projects - Download Source Code

In this post, we're excited to share a curated list of Spring Boot projects that span various types and complexities. These projects serve as an excellent learning resource and provide practical, hands-on experience. 

From building web applications to creating microservices, our selection covers a wide range of applications that demonstrate the robustness and versatility of Spring Boot. Each project comes with its source code and a step-by-step tutorial to build to real-world application development. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to understand best practices, familiarize yourself with Spring Boot's conventions, and gain insights into solving common problems encountered during development. Whether you're looking to brush up on your Spring Boot skills before a job interview, searching for a base project to kickstart your next big idea, or simply exploring new technologies, these free Spring Boot projects guide you. So, let's embark on this journey together and unlock the full potential of Spring Boot in your development projects!

1. Banking Application using Spring Boot

In this project, we will learn how to build REST APIs for a simple Banking application using Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA (Hibernate) and MySQL database. 

You will create a simple version of the Banking App with basic functionalities: creating a bank account, fetching account details, and making a deposit/withdrawal.

Use this tutorial to build this banking application: Banking Application using Spring Boot.

Sample screenshot of the REST API:

In this project, we will learn how to build REST APIs for a Library Management System Project using Spring BootSpring Data JPA (Hibernate), and MySQL database.

We'll create a simple version of the Library Management System with basic functionalities:

  1. Create a new User
  2. Fetch all the Users
  3. Add new book
  4. Fetch all the books
  5. Fetch specific book
  6. Delete a book
  7. Borrow a book
  8. Return a book
Use this tutorial to build this library management system application: Library Management System using Spring Boot.

Sample screenshot of the REST API:
In this project, we will build an Employee Management System project from scratch using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Thymeleaf, and MySQL database. Spring Boot is an opinionated framework that helps developers build stand-alone and production-grade Spring-based applications quickly and easily. 

We will implement the following features in this project: 
  1. List Employee Feature 
  2. Add Employee Feature 
  3. Update Employee Feature 
  4. Delete Employee Feature 
  5. Pagination Feature 
  6. Sorting Feature 
  7. Login Feature 
  8. Registration Feature 
  9. Logout Feature

Demo screenshot of this project:
Employee Management Project using Spring Boot


 4. Simple Microservices Project using Spring Boot

This project will teach us how to build a simple Microservices project using Spring Boot 3, Spring Cloud, and PostgreSQL database. In this microservices project, you'll explore essential concepts such as API Gateway, Config Server, Discovery Server, and hands-on implementation of two real-world microservices, Student and School.

Use this tutorial to build this project: Microservices Project using Spring Boot.

Here is the Microservices Architecture for our Microservices project that we are going to build in this tutorial:

In this full-stack project, we will learn how to develop a simple end-to-end full-stack web application that is a basic Employee Management Application using React and Spring Boot.

I have created this project for my free ReactJS + Spring Boot CRUD Full Stack App course on YouTube.

In this project, you will learn how to build a full-stack web application that is a basic Employee Management Application with CRUD features:
  1. Create Employee
  2. List Employee
  3. Update Employee
  4. Delete Employee
  5. View Employee
Use this tutorial to build this project: CRUD App using Spring Boot and React

Following is the screenshot of the final version of our application -

6. Spring Boot Microservices Project

In this Spring Boot Microservices Project, you will learn how to develop applications using microservices architecture and Spring Boot.

In this project, the following Spring cloud modules: 
  1. Spring Cloud Config Server 
  2. Spring Cloud Bus 
  3. Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka 
  4. Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker 
  5. Spring Cloud Sleuth 
  6. Spring Cloud Gateway 
  7. Spring Cloud Stream
Download the source code from the GitHub link: https://github.com/SaiUpadhyayula/springboot-microservices-project

7. Spring Boot Thymeleaf Project - Employee Management System

In this project, you will learn how to create a simple real-time project (Employee Management System) using Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.
Features: 
  • Implement List Employee Feature
  • Implement Add Employee Feature
  • Implement Update Employee Feature
  • Implement Delete Employee Feature
  • Implement Pagination Feature
  • Implement Sorting Feature
  • Implement Search Feature
Tutorial and Source code link - https://www.javaguides.net/2020/05/spring-boot-thymeleaf-hibernate-crud-database-project.html.

8. Spring Boot MVC Web Application - Todo App

Spring MVC Todo Management is a web application that uses Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JSP, JPA, and MySQL as a database.

Tutorial link - https://www.javaguides.net/2018/09/mini-todo-management-project-using-spring-boot-springmvc-springsecurity-jsp-hibernate-mysql.html.

GitHub repository link - https://github.com/RameshMF/todo-management-spring-boot.

9. Spring Boot Project - Sagan

This is a real-world app that powers the spring.io website. It is in production and used by thousands of users each day.

Sagan project is open-source and available on the GitHub repository: - https://github.com/spring-io/sagan

Read more about this project at Spring Boot Project - Sagan

10. PiggyMetrics - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Microservice Project

Free open-source project that is PiggyMetrics developed using Microservice Architecture Pattern, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud for learning purposes. So go ahead, check out the source code, and have a hands-on experience on real-time projects.

Read more about this project at https://www.sourcecodeexamples.net/2020/10/spring-boot-spring-cloud-microservice.html

PiggyMetrics was decomposed into three core microservices. All of them are independently deployable applications, organized around certain business domains.


11. Shopping Cart App

This shopping cart application was developed using Microservice Architecture with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Here are the microservices:
  • catalog-service: It provides REST API to provide catalog information like products.
  • inventory-service: It provides a REST API to manage product inventory.
  • cart-service: It provides a REST API to hold the customer cart details.
  • order-service: It provides a REST API to manage orders.
  • customer-service: It provides a REST API to manage customer information.
  • shoppingcart-ui: It is a customer-facing front-end web application.
Read more about this project at https://www.sourcecodeexamples.net/2020/10/spring-boot-microservice-project.html

12. BookStoreApp - Spring Boot Microservices, Spring Cloud and React Project

This is an E-commerce project, where users can add books to the cart and buy those books.
The application is being developed using Java, Spring, and React.

Read more about this project at https://www.sourcecodeexamples.net/2020/10/spring-boot-microservices-spring-cloud-and-react-project.html

13. Spring Boot Angular Petclinic Project

This is an open-source project and the source code of this project was hosted on GitHub.

There are two projects and source code available on GitHub:

spring-petclinic-rest - This backend version of the Spring Petclinic application only provides a REST API.
spring-petclinic-angular - This is a client that consumes REST APIs exposed in the spring-petclinic-rest project.

Read more about this project at https://www.sourcecodeexamples.net/2020/10/spring-boot-angular-petclinic-project.html

14. Spring Petclinic App - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Microservice Project

This Spring Petclinic application was developed using Microservice Architecture with Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.

This project uses Spring Cloud Gateway, Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker, Spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Sleuth, Resilience4j, Micrometer, and the Eureka Service Discovery from the Spring Cloud Netflix technology stack.

More Free Spring Boot Projects with Source Code

  1. Spring Boot ReactJS CRUD Project - Employee Management App
  2. Spring Boot Microservices, Spring Cloud and React Project - BookStoreApp
  3. Spring Boot Angular Project - BookStore App
  4. Spring Boot Angular Petclinic Project
  5. Microservices with Spring Cloud Project
  6. Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Microservice Project - Spring Petclinic App
  7. Spring Boot Microservice Project - Shopping Cart App
  8. Spring Boot Project - User Registration Module
  9. Spring Boot MVC Web Application - Todo App
  10. Spring Boot WebSocket Project - Chat Application
  11. Spring Boot, Spring Security, JWT, React, and Ant Design - Polling App
  12. Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Microservice Project - PiggyMetrics
  13. Spring Petclinic
  14. Spring Boot MVC Project - Blogs Aggregator
  15. Spring Boot Thymeleaf Project - Employee Management System
  16. Spring Boot + Angular Project - Employee Management System
  17. Spring Initializr
  18. ReactJS Spring Boot CRUD Full Stack Application
  19. Spring Boot Project - Sagan

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