I cannot get STS configured to properly import this as a gradle project.

[Brad4dm]

Can you please provide this as a maven project

[bodtx]

cannot build with gradle

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred evaluating root project 'spring-reactive-playground-master'.

Plugin with id 'spring-boot' not found.

[jerryh91]

If you change your buildscript you can resolve this issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26577805/spring-boot-gradle-plugin-cant-be-found

However, I'm now getting below error importing in Eclipse Oxygen. If I follow error message and generate new Gradle wrapper classes/jar for Gradle 4.X, then while import, I'm getting a few methods not found errors.

Synchronize Gradle projects with workspace failed due to an error in the referenced Gradle build.
Could not run build action using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip'.

Build file '/Users/jerryhou/Documents/workspace/spring-reactive-playground/build.gradle' line: 16
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'spring-reactive-playground'.
Failed to apply plugin [class 'org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin.SpringBootPlugin']
Spring Boot plugin requires Gradle 4.0 or later. The current version is Gradle 2.14.1
org.gradle.tooling.BuildException: Could not run build action using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip'.
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