spring-attic/sagan

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Sagan is the Spring team's own web application that powered the spring.io website, including its blog and guides, built with Spring Boot as a real-world reference application. The repository is now archived and no longer used in production, but remains available as a learning resource for seeing how the Spring team built a production app.

Use cases

• study how the Spring team builds real-world Spring Boot applications
• learn best practices for a production Spring web application
• see how a content-driven site with blog and guides is implemented in Spring
• find example code for Spring MVC, security, and data access patterns
• self-host a Spring-based content website as a starting point

When to choose

• you want a comprehensive, real-world Spring Boot reference codebase to learn from
• you are building a content-driven website (blog, guides, docs) with Spring
• you want to see idiomatic usage of Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Data together

When to avoid

• you need a maintained, production-ready CMS or website platform - the project is archived
• you want a minimal starter template - it is a large full application, not a boilerplate
• you need the current spring.io site features - production no longer uses this code

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

web-framework http-server templating ssr web-development backend developer-tools documentation jvm self-hosted spring-boot reference-application content-site archived blog guides web-server

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