When we are developing a web application using Spring MVC, we have to manually write the configurations, XML files, etc. for deploying to web server. But in case of Spring Boot, it bundles all the dependencies for us which results in a standalone JAR file with embedded servers. We don't need to manually configure dispatcher servlet, static resource mappings, property source loader, message converters etc.

• Spring MVC is a complete HTTP oriented MVC framework managed by the Spring Framework and based in Servlets. It would be equivalent to JSF in the JavaEE stack. The most popular elements in it are classes annotated with @Controller, where you implement methods you can access using different HTTP requests. It has an equivalent @RestController to implement REST based APIs.
• Spring boot is a utility for setting up applications quickly, offering an out of the box configuration in order to build Spring powered applications. As you may know, Spring integrates a wide range of different modules in its umbrella, as spring-core, spring-data, spring-web (which includes Spring MVC, by the way) and so on. With this tool you can tell Spring how many of them to use and you'll get a fast setup for them (you are allowed to change it by yourself later on).

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Spring Boot. Its is simpler and works with other spring ecosystem. It saves you a lot of time and the need to be adding unnecessary annotations.

Read my beginner level in depth tutorial on how to build REST API in Spring Boot with MySQL

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A Spring boot application can contain all the Spring MVC dependencies.

Start here to generate a spring boot project: start.spring.io

This is a good guide for getting started serving web content: spring.io/guides/gs/serving-web-content

If you're already past that info, there are a lot more guides that may help: spring.io/guides

Depends on what kind of application you want to develop.