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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

Chapter 1


Answer 1: Spring Boot is Java-based web application framework that is based on Spring. With Spring Boot you can develop stand-alone web applications with embedded application server.

Answer 2: Eclipse is open source integrated development environment (IDE) and it is mostly used for Java programming, but it supports multiple other programming languages as well. 

Answer 3: Maven is open source software project management tool. Maven can manage builds, documentation, testing, and more in the software development project.

Answer 4: The easiest way to start a new Spring Boot project is to create it with Spring Initializr web page. That creates a skeleton for your project with the modules that you need.

Answer 5: If you are using the Eclipse IDE you just activate you main class and press Run button. You can also use Maven command mvn spring-boot:run to run an application.

Answer 6: Spring Boot starter package provides logging features for you. You can define the level of logging in the application.properties settings file.

Answer 7: The error and log messages can be seen in the Eclipse IDE console after you run the application.