Laravel and Spring Boot in 2025

I just realized that I can use Jetbrains’ Educational Pack. Since I got time, why not download all of them and have a try?

It has been years of not using Spring boot, since I left Qunar. I do not have any project that uses Java. Lately I heard that spring boot now supports kotlin. So I did a try. Just go to the Spring Initializr add spring web as dependency, then the project template is done.

The rest of it is as simple as making a restful server. I just need to add a controller, and then I can use the @GetMapping annotation to map the request to a method.

Laravel is much easier, I almost forgot how easy to use a PHP framework. And the starter template supports user authentication out of box. brilliant!