Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React

A comprehensive guide to building full stack applications covering frontend and server-side programming, data management, and web security

Key Features

• Unleash the power of React Hooks to build interactive and complex user interfaces
• Build scalable full stack applications designed to meet demands of modern users
• Understand how the Axios library simplifies CRUD operations

Book Description

React Hooks have changed the way React components are coded. They enable you to write components in a more intuitive way without using classes, which makes your code easier to read and maintain. Building on from the previous edition, this book is updated with React Hooks and the latest changes introduced in create-react-app and Spring Boot 2.1.

This book starts with a brief introduction to Spring Boot. You'll understand how to use dependency injection and work with the data access layer of Spring using Hibernate as the ORM tool. You'll then learn how to build your own RESTful API endpoints for web applications. As you advance, the book introduces you to other Spring components, such as Spring Security to help you secure the backend. Moving on, you'll explore React and its app development environment and components for building your frontend. Finally, you'll create a Docker container for your application by implementing the best practices that underpin professional full stack web development.

By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with all the knowledge you need to build modern full stack applications with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend.

What you will learn

• Create a RESTful web service with Spring Boot
• Grasp the fundamentals of dependency injection and how to use it for backend development
• Discover techniques for securing the backend using Spring Security
• Understand how to use React for frontend programming
• Benefit from the Heroku cloud server by deploying your application to it
• Delve into the techniques for creating unit tests using JUnit
• Explore the Material UI component library to make more user-friendly user interfaces

Who this book is for

If you are a Java developer familiar with Spring, but are new to building full stack applications, this is the book for you.

Table of Contents

1. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Backend
2. Dependency Injection
3. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database
4. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot
5. Securing and Testing Your Backend
6. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Frontend
7. Getting Started with React
8. Consuming the REST API with React
9. Useful Third-Party Components for React
10. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service
11. Adding CRUD Functionalities
12. Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI
13. Testing Your Frontend
14. Securing Your Application
15. Deploying Your Application
16. Best Practices

Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in computer science from the University of Helsinki. He has over 15 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and nowadays also uses React Native.