Building a Hello-world Vert.x app with Gradle

In this article, I will walk through a few quick steps that will build a Hello-world app with Vert.x and with Gradle.

Before you start, make sure you have Gradle installed. If not, here are the instructions.

1. Create a Gradle project

$ mkdir vertx-hello
$ cd vertx-hello
$ gradle init

Select type of project to generate:
1: basic
2: application
3: library
4: Gradle plugin
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