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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

Summary 


In this chapter, we focused on networking with React. We started with promises that make asynchronous network calls easier to implement. It is a cleaner way to handle calls, and much better than using traditional callback functions. In this book, we are using the Fetch API for networking, therefore we went through the basics of using fetch. We implemented two practical React apps that calling open REST APIs and we presented the response data in the browser. In the next chapter we will look some useful React component that we are going to use in our frontend.