We will create a basic WebFlux-based web application first, and will slowly add other features, including security, in it. The whole code is available in our book's GitHub page, under the chapter's folder, namely spring-boot-webflux.

I am using IntelliJ as my IDE, and since we are using Lombok library (annotation preprocessor), make sure to enable the Lombok plugin, so as to generate appropriate boilerplate code for your model. Our project is kept quite simple, and does the function of movie management (the movie CRUD operation).