1. What is a Spring Boot Starter?
A Spring Boot Starter is a dependency that simplifies adding libraries and configurations to your Spring Boot project.
Instead of manually adding multiple dependencies and configurations, you can include a starter, and it will pull all necessary dependencies for you.
For example:
spring-boot-starter-web→ for building REST APIs and web applications.spring-boot-starter-data-jpa→ for database interaction using JPA.spring-boot-starter-security→ for adding security.