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

By : Juha Hinkula
Book Image

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

Chapter 9. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service

This chapter explains the steps that are needed to start the development of the frontend part. We will first define the functionalities that we are developing. Then we will do the mock-up of the user interface. As a backend, we will use our Spring Boot application from Chapter 4, Securing and Testing Your Backend. We will start development using the unsecured version of the backend. Finally, we will create the React app that we will use in our frontend development.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

  • Why and how to do a mock-up
  • Preparing our Spring Boot backend for frontend development
  • Creating the React app for the frontend