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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

RESTful API design procedure


Now that we've learned what a RESTful API is and the characteristics of a RESTful API, let's talk about how to design a RESTful API; that is, the procedure of API design.

Finding out the requirements

When designing RESTful APIs, you should start by listing what the clients of the APIs need to be able to do. For internal APIs, it is straightforward. You can get these requirements by discussing this with the developers of the frontend to find out the interactions that the frontend needs to have with the backend, which usually involves reviewing user stories and UI design work. For public APIs, you need to talk to the developers of the clients of your APIs, ask them their requirements and what problems they need to solve and find out what is common in their needs.

Identifying resources

Once you have gathered the requirements, you do the domain analysis and identify the resources that need to be exposed. Be careful with the APIs that you make publicly available since...