Useful commands:

./gradlew test: will run your unit tests. ./gradlew run : will run your application in the environment. This is useful to test your application in the development environment. ./gradlew jar: will create the jar inside the directory /build/libs with only the project's code. Not dependencies. ./gradlew assembleDist: will create a .tar and a .zip (both contain the same) in the directory /build/distributions that contain the whole directory structure that will allow to install your project along with its dependencies in a machine without IDE (only with java 11 installed) and run it. ./gradlew clean: will clean the compilation files and the created artifacts

More info

Gradle application plugin https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/application_plugin.html