1. run /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

1. run brew install --cask docker
2. start Docker Desktop
3. register/login
4. verify docker daemon is runner by running docker ps. If there is no error it is running

1. run start-dependencies.sh

1. run curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
2. run source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"

1. run sdk install java 23-open

1. run sdk install maven

• OpenJDK 23

• Spring Web
• Spring Boot Dev Tools
• Spring data JPA
• H2 Database
• PostgresSQL Driver
• Spring Data elastic search (Access+Driver)
• Lombok

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• JetBrains AI Assistant
• JPA Buddy
• KeyPromoter X

• Spring Boot Developer Extension Pack - by Developer Soapbox

• Spring Boot Snippets - by Developer Soapbox

• Spring Boot Tools - by VMWare

• Spring Boot Dashboard - by Microsoft

• Spring Initializr Java Support - by Microsoft

• GitHub Copilot - by GitHub

• GitHub Copilot Chat - by GitHub

• Markdown All in One - by You Zhang

• YAML - by Red Hat

• GitHub Pull Requests - by Github

• IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings (if you are an IntelliJ user)

• Rest Client - by Huachao Mao

• Including the spring tool suite maven dependency and VS code plugin so that it would enable live reload server so that for any change, changes server reload the application automatically.

See executable examples in endpoints.http