Move from Grails 3 to Spring-Boot

Question

Our project uses the Grails stack with Grails 3.1.5, GORM and Groovy. We are trying to move away from Grails and just use Spring-Boot. We have not settled yet if we want to get rid of GORM and Groovy as well.

Our reasons are:

• a lot of trouble in upgrading to Grails 3.2.2
• lack of up-to-date plugins
• bugs in grails and it's plugins
• no community
• bad documentation
• mostly figuring out the magic of Grails takes up more time than writing everything on your own

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on how to deal with a migration like this?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

In any case, even though you seem to have written your question in a way that is likely to create more discussion than help you out, here's my 2 cents, FWIW:

You're already in a spring boot application! You can leave all the annoying grails-y and groovy-y things behind and code your app in java, with all the boot-y annotations you want.

This is not to be facetious! It is a good methodology to slowly extract your grails artifacts and replace them, with spring-boot components, without having to break your app.

So here, from a non-existing community member of grails, good luck.

UPDATE: After answering your question, I thought back to all the times a grails developer answered a question for me, every time I spent hours through the rabbit hole of the grails web sites, reading mind-blowing documentation and tutorials, and I thought I owed it to all these people doing this for FREE, to come back and defend them.

The grails and groovy communities are one of the friendliest I have ever come accross. You should bother to go to a conference or visit their slack community.

Some links to grails' outstanding documentation sites: http://grails.org/documentation.html

Grails guides: http://guides.grails.org/

Either you haven't looked or you have to tell me what your standard is.