// the take
A grab-bag of 100+ small, standalone Spring Boot example projects (CRUD, JWT, file upload, Angular/React front ends, Spring Security, JSP vs Thymeleaf, etc.), each tied to a tutorial post on javaguides.net. It's for beginners who want a runnable reference project to go with a specific blog post, not a library or framework you depend on.
Each example lives in its own folder with its own pom.xml and Application.java, so you can clone one narrow topic (say, file upload or pagination) without untangling it from unrelated code. The breadth is genuinely wide — JSP, Thymeleaf, JPA auditing, async methods, multiple datasources, LDAP auth — covering corners most single tutorials skip. Several projects go full-stack (Spring Boot + Angular/React), which is useful for seeing a complete request cycle end to end rather than just the backend half.
The repo itself is mostly a directory of links out to a blog from 2018–2021; there's no code or explanation in the README itself, so its value depends entirely on javaguides.net staying up. Content is stuck on old patterns — JSP, Spring Boot 2, Angular 8/9 — with no sign of Spring Boot 3.x or Spring Security 6 idioms, so a lot of it will mislead rather than teach current best practice. Boilerplate like exception handlers and Application classes is copy-pasted across dozens of sub-projects instead of shared, meaning fixes or security patches in one don't propagate to the rest. No license is stated, no CI, and tests across the sub-projects are mostly empty placeholder classes, so don't expect any of these to be production-ready starting points.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →