Creating a Spring Boot Starter

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Hi,

Is there a guide on how to create a Spring Boot starter from a Vaadin application?

Background is that I have an application that can serve as the base for other applications and would like to use the starter mechanism provided by Spring Boot to enable this.

I’ve had a look around but have not been able to find any examples.

Using maven and Vaadin 24.6.4.

Thanks

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It probably depends on the amount and what type of code you wanna share / auto-configure. Depending on it’s either:

  • Vaadin does not care
  • You need to specify proper parent theming
  • EnableVaadin needs to check other packages
  • It needs to be packaged like a Vaadin add-on

To come back to your original question: there is no example for your exact use case without knowing more what you wanna do exactly.

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I have made couple. Here is one “development time helper” I published recently:

I didn’t use @EnableVaadin, but dynamically registered views. With the current setup it would probably be enough (as the path is hardcoded). Had some ideas that I could make it drop the views to the main app navigation instead (which was proabably a bad idea)…

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Thanks, this is the sort of thing I was looking for. My main uncertainty was around the autoconfig and you’ve given the pointers that I needed.