Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React: Build modern and scalable full stack applications using the Java-based Spring Framework 5.0 and React

Develop efficient and modern full stack applications using Spring Boot and React 16

Key Features

• Build resourceful backends using Spring Boot and faultless frontends using React
• Explore techniques involved in creating a full stack app
• Add CRUD functionalities and use Material- UI in the user interface to make it more user friendly

Book Description

Apart from knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a full stack engineer has to tackle all the problems that can be encountered in the application development life cycle, starting from a simple idea to UI design, the technical design, and all the way to implementing, testing, production, deployment, and monitoring. Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React covers the full set of technologies that you need to know to become a full stack web developer with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend.

This comprehensive guide begins by demonstrating how to build a modern full stack application in practice. You will learn how to build RESTful API endpoints and work with the data access layer of Spring, using hibernate as the ORM. As you advance through the book, you will be introduced to the other components of Spring, such as Spring Security, which will teach you how to secure the backend. In the concluding chapters, you will move on to the frontend, where you will be introduced to React, a modern JavaScript library for building fast and reliable user interfaces, and its app development environment and components.You will also create a Docker container for your application.

By the end of this book, you will have understood best practices that underpin professional full stack web development and be able to create efficient and modern full stack applications.

What you will learn

• Create a RESTful web service with Spring Boot
• Use React for frontend programming
• Learn to create unit tests using JUnit
• Discover techniques to secure the backend using Spring Security
• Employ Material-UI in the user interface to make it more user friendly
• Create a React app using the Create React App starter kit by Facebook

Who This Book Is For

Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React is for Java developers who are familiar with Spring, but have not yet built full stack applications.

Table of Contents

1. Setting up Environment & Tools
2. Using JPA to create and access database
3. Creating RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot
4. Securing & Testing your back end
5. Setting up environment and tools
6. Getting started with React
7. Consuming REST API with React
8. Useful 3rd party components for React
9. Setting up Front-end to our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service
10. Adding CRUD functionalities
11. Styling Front-End with React Material-UI
12. Testing your front-end
13. Securing your application
14. Deploying your application
15. 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.