Have you ever had to use spring-boot-starter or write your own components?

Yes, in Spring Boot projects I often used spring-boot-starter for quick startup and integration of popular libraries (e.g., spring-boot-starter-web, spring-boot-starter-data-jpa). This significantly speeds up development as starters automatically pull in the necessary dependencies and configurations.

However, sometimes I had to write custom components, for example, for specific business logic, custom filters, or integration with non-standard services. In such cases, I created my own beans and configurations using the capabilities of the Spring Framework to ensure flexibility and extensibility of the application.