Dependencies for Spring Boot Project

<dependencies>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>     </dependency> </dependencies>

• spring-boot-starter         – this lets spring boot autoconfigure your application
• spring-boot-starter-web – this dependency tells spring boot that your application is a web application. This add the functionality of @Controller, @RequestMapping, etc.
• spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf – web app needs some views like jsp or html. Thymeleaf is a server side template engine where your htmls can be viewed in any browser. Simply to say, instead of traditional jsp with jstl or format tags.
• spring-boot-devtools     – this is an optional dependency but this makes your development faster. This dependency automatically restart or hotswap your changes to the running tomcat server, thus removing the need to restart the application whenever there are changes in codes.