Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

▶Book Description
Apart from knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a full-stack engineer has to tackle all the problems that are 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. This book 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 demonstrates how to build a modern full-stack application in practice. This book will teach you how to build RESTful API endpoints and work with the data access Layer of Spring, using Hibernate as the ORM. As we move ahead, you will be introduced to the other components of Spring, such as Spring Security, which will teach you how to secure the backend. Then, we 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. Finally, the book will lay out the best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.

▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Create a RESTful web service with Spring Boot
⦁ Understand how to use React for frontend programming
⦁ Gain knowledge of how to create unit tests using JUnit
⦁ Discover the techniques that go into securing the backend using Spring Security
⦁ Learn how to use Material UI in the user interface to make it more user-friendly
⦁ Create a React app by using the Create React App starter kit made by Facebook

▶Key Features
⦁ Develop resourceful backends using Spring Boot and faultless frontends using React.
⦁ Explore the techniques involved in creating a full-stack app by going through a methodical approach.
⦁ Learn to add CRUD functionalities and use Material UI in the user interface to make it more user-friendly.

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is written for:
⦁ Frontend developers who want to learn full stack development
⦁ Backend developers who want to learn full stack development
⦁ Full stack developers who have used some other technologies
⦁ Java developers who are familiar with Spring, but haven't ever built a full-stack application.

▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Setting Up the Environment and Tools –. Backend, explains how to install the software needed for backend development and how to create your first Spring Boot application.

⦁ Chapter 2, Using JPA to Create and Access a Database, introduces JPA and explains how to create and access databases with Spring Boot.

⦁ Chapter 3, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot, shows how to create RESTful Web Services using Spring Data REST.

⦁ Chapter 4, Securing and Testing Your Backend, explains how to secure your backend using Spring Security and JWT.

⦁ Chapter 5, Setting Up the Environment and Tools –. Frontend, explains how to install the software needed for frontend development.

⦁ Chapter 6, Getting Started with React, introduces the basics of the React library.

⦁ Chapter 7, Consuming the REST API with React, shows how to use REST APIs with React using the Fetch API.

⦁ Chapter 8, Useful Third-Party Components for React, demonstrates some handy components that we'll use in our frontend development.

⦁ Chapter 9, Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service, explains how to set up the React app and Spring Boot backend for frontend development.

⦁ Chapter 10, Adding CRUD Functionalities, shows how to implement CRUD functionalities to the React frontend.

⦁ Chapter 11, Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI, shows how to polish the user interface using the React Material-UI component library.

⦁ Chapter 12, Testing Your Frontend, explains the basics of React frontend testing.

⦁ Chapter 13, Securing Your Application, explains how to secure the frontend using JWT.

⦁ Chapter 14, Deploying Your Application, demonstrates how to deploy an application to Heroku and how to use Docker containers.

⦁ Chapter 15, Best Practices, explains the basic technologies that are needed to become a full stack developer and covers some basic best practices for software development.