13 High-Quality Open-Source Spring Boot Projects for Java Developers

Spring Boot is currently the most popular technology stack in the Java ecosystem and a must‑know for Java developers. Below is a curated list of 13 high‑quality open‑source Spring Boot projects, presented with star counts, repository URLs, brief descriptions, and demo screenshots.

1. mall

Star count: 12.7k. https://github.com/macrozheng/mall

The mall project is an e‑commerce system with a front‑end storefront and back‑end admin, built on SpringBoot + MyBatis. It includes modules such as home portal, product recommendation, search, display, cart, order flow, member center, and various admin functions like product, order, member, promotion, operation, content, reporting, finance, and permission management.

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2. Cloud-Platform

Star count: 8k. https://gitee.com/geek_qi/cloud-platform

Cloud-Platform is the first domestic Spring Cloud micro‑service development platform, offering unified authentication, user management, resource permission, API gateway, and more. It uses Spring Boot 2.1.2, Spring Cloud Greenwich, Nacos, Sentinel, and a Vue‑Element‑Admin front‑end.

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3. 微人事 (VHR)

Star count: 3.3k. https://github.com/lenve/vhr

VHR is a front‑back separated human‑resource management system built with SpringBoot + Vue. It features role‑resource management, user‑role management, and continuous updates.

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4. spring-boot-pay

Star count: 2.9k. https://gitee.com/52itstyle/spring-boot-pay

This is a payment demo providing detailed code for Alipay, WeChat Pay, and UnionPay, useful for developers needing payment integration.

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5. spring-boot-seckill

Star count: 3.7k. https://gitee.com/52itstyle/spring-boot-seckill

A distributed flash‑sale (seckill) system built from 0 to 1 with SpringBoot, illustrating architecture and incremental improvements.

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6. V 部落 (VBlog)

Star count: 1.06k. https://github.com/lenve/VBlog

VBlog is a multi‑user blog management platform built with Vue + SpringBoot.

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7. springboot-plus

Star count: 2.6k. https://gitee.com/xiandafu/springboot-plus

A SpringBoot 2 based admin system with user, organization, role, permission, menu, data‑scope management, code generation, and support for multiple databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, SQLServer). Front‑end uses Layui 2.4.

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8. litemall

Star count: 6.49k. https://github.com/linlinjava/litemall

A mall project comprising a Spring Boot back‑end, Vue admin front‑end, WeChat mini‑program, and Vue mobile front‑end. Features include home, categories, brand, product, cart, order, coupon, group‑buy, search, reviews, sharing, and comprehensive admin modules.

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9. jeeSpringCloud

Star count: 3.9k. https://gitee.com/JeeHuangBingGui/jeeSpringCloud

A SpringBoot 2 based backend permission management system with a clean UI, using Spring, MyBatis, Shiro, and offering modules such as scheduling, monitoring, SSO, Redis cache, marketing, logging, API docs, code generation, and integration with Dubbo, Spring Cloud, and more.

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10. NiceFish

Star count: 3k. https://gitee.com/mumu-osc/NiceFish

NiceFish is a series of projects demonstrating front‑back separation across browsers, mobile, and Electron, with both SpringBoot and SpringCloud back‑ends.

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11. zscat_sw

Star count: 2.1k. https://gitee.com/catshen/zscat_sw

A SpringBoot + Dubbo based mall project covering front‑end, back‑end, H5, mini‑program, with features like SSO, API gateway, traffic control, auto‑CRUD, caching, read/write separation, distributed tasks, locks, message queues, OAuth2, full‑text search, Qiniu file service, and more.

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12. Roses

Star count: 1.7k. https://gitee.com/stylefeng/roses

Roses is built on Spring Boot 2 and Spring Cloud Finchley, offering enterprise‑grade distributed transaction consistency, service governance, and robust exception tracing for micro‑service architectures.

13. 华夏ERP (JSH_ERP)

Star count: 1.6k. https://gitee.com/jishenghua/JSH_ERP

HuaXia ERP is a SpringBoot‑based open‑source ERP targeting small‑to‑medium enterprises, focusing on inventory, procurement, sales, finance, and detailed role‑based permission control.

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Summary

This collection provides a quick reference to valuable Spring Boot resources; readers are encouraged to contribute additional projects in the comments.