I built a Spring Boot starter for MapStruct to remove boilerplate – feedback welcome

Hello everyone,

While working with Spring Boot + MapStruct, I noticed one recurring pain:

• Repeatedly writing @Mapper(componentModel = "spring") in every mapper
• Manual configuration boilerplate just to get things wired up

It may look like a small at the first… but across multiple projects and dozens of mappers, this repetitive setup becomes a bigger productivity drag and an easy source of mistakes.

So, I created a MapStruct Spring Boot Starter.

What it does:

• Auto-detects and registers MapStruct mappers in your Spring Boot app
• No need to specify componentModel = "spring" everywhere in the mappers
• Simple dependency + optional application.yml config → ready to go

Installation:

1) Dependency:

Maven:

<dependency> <groupId>com.codestackfoundry.starters</groupId> <artifactId>mapstruct-spring-boot-starter</artifactId> <version>1.0.1</version> </dependency> 

Gradle:

dependencies { implementation 'com.codestackfoundry.starters:mapstruct-spring-boot-starter:1.0.1' } 

Configuration(Optional):

mapstruct: base-packages: - com.example.demo.mapper - com.shared.mappers fail-if-no-mappers: true 

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/codestackfoundry/spring-boot-starters
📄 Docs: https://codestackfoundry.com/docs/mapstruct-spring-boot-starter.html

I’d love to hear your feedback.