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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

Technical requirements


The Spring Boot application that we created in Chapter 4Securing and Testing Your Backend is needed.

Node.js and create-react-app should be installed.

Mocking up the user interface

In the first few chapters of this book, we created a car database backend that provides the REST API. Now it is time to start building the frontend to our application. We will create a frontend that list cars from the database and provides paging, sorting, and filtering. There is a button that opens the modal form to add new cars to the database. In each row of the car table, there is a button to delete the car from the database. Table rows are also editable and modifications can be saved to the database by clicking the Save button in the row. The frontend contains a link or button to export data from the table to a CSV file.

Let's create a mock-up from our user interface. There are lots of different applications for creating mock-ups, or you could even use a pencil and paper. You can also...