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

By : Juha Hinkula
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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

By: Juha Hinkula

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Best practices


Software development is always team work and therefore it is really important that everyone in a team is using common best practices. Here, we will go through some basic things that you have to take into account. This is not the whole list, but we try to concentrate on some basic things that you should know.

Coding conventions

Coding conventions are guidelines that describe how the code should be written in a specific programming language. It makes code more readable and easier to maintain. Naming conventions define how variables, methods, and more should be named. Naming is really important because that helps developers understand the purpose of a certain unit in the program. The layout convention defines how the structure of the source code should look, for example, indenting and usage of spaces. The commenting convention defines how the source code should be commented. Quite often it is good to use some standardized ways for the commenting, such as Javadoc with Java.

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