Building a Spring Boot 2 Auto-Configuration and Starter with Kotlin and Gradle

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A concept that makes Spring Boot very powerful are its Starters and Auto-Configuration. It enables the automatic inclusion of dependencies and configuration or initialization based on several conditions.

Recently I have been looking for a tutorial or “best practice” on how to use Gradle to build a custom starter. Since I was unable to find an example I ended up writing my own. I also added some Kotlin into the mix.

You can find the project at GitHub.