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+buildscript {
+    ext {
+        springBootVersion = '2.1.0.RELEASE'
+    }
+    repositories {
+        mavenCentral()
+    }
+    dependencies {
+        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
+    }
+}
+
+plugins {
+    id 'java'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.1.0.RELEASE'
+    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.8.RELEASE'
+    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '5.0.0'
+}
+
+group = 'com.example'
+version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
+
+repositories {
+    mavenCentral()
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:2.1.0.RELEASE'
+    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:2.1.0.RELEASE'
+
+    compile 'com.graphql-java-kickstart:graphql-spring-boot-starter:5.1'
+    compile 'com.graphql-java-kickstart:graphiql-spring-boot-starter:5.1'
+
+    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
+    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.12'
+}