Building a Terminal UI for Spring Initializr with Java

TUIs are all the rage right now, and if you've been spending more time in the terminal (especially with tools like Claude Code), you'll love this. I built a full terminal UI for the Spring Initializr so you never have to leave the command line to bootstrap a Spring Boot project. In this video, I walk you through a Terminal User Interface (TUI) I built in Java using the new Tambu UI framework and the Spring Initializr API. You'll see how I went from seeing a tweet about a Java TUI framework to building a fully functional tool that creates Spring Boot projects, remembers your preferences, lets …