Many Java developers think that spending anywhere between 3–6 months on Spring Boot tutorials and putting a few random projects here and there on the resume is enough to land them bigger and better…

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Spring Boot developers often struggle with transitioning from tutorials to real-world projects. Common problems include lack of a structured roadmap and insufficient practical project experience. By focusing on key codebases, exploring common functionalities, and addressing weak areas, developers can significantly enhance their skills. Additional growth can be achieved through mentoring, contributing to open source projects, and working on personal projects. The post emphasizes the importance of practical application to bridge the gap between theoretical learning and real-world problem-solving.

Why Spring Boot Developers Struggle When Building Real-World Projects?

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Some great tips in this article for inexperienced developers, but what does it have to do with Spring Boot? If all you know is literally only Spring Boot, not Spring (or Quarkus, or any Jakarta implementation, for that matter), not transactions, DI, not JDBC, JPA, Messaging… whatever, well then there is a lot to learn.
It is true that most Spring Boot tutorials are “only skin deep”, they are similar to the famous hello world program that exists for as good as any programming language, but you can hardly call yourself a developer in that language if that is all you know either.
Spring Boot is just a “convenience-wrapper” around Spring that saves you a lot of boilerplate coding.

Spring boot abstracted away too much. You’re no longer learning the fundamentals of how things work. You’re just learning “Spring Boot”.
So many Spring boot devs you interview, and ask them a question, like how do you implement security on an endpoint etc.
And the answer they provide is just a flurry of highly abstracted and packaged spring build-in services. Then you dig a bit deeper and understand they have no idea what a JWT is.

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