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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: RESTful Web Services
7
Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Implementation of the GraphQL server

You are going to develop a standalone GraphQL server in this chapter. The knowledge you acquire while developing the standalone GraphQL server can be used to implement federated GraphQL services.

Let's create the Gradle project first in the next subsection.

Creating the gRPC server project

Either you can use the Chapter 14 code from a cloned Git repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-API-Development-with-Spring-and-Spring-Boot), or you can start by creating a new Spring project from scratch using Spring Initializr (https://start.spring.io/) for the server and client with the following options (you will create the gRPC api library project separately):

  • Project: Gradle Project
  • Language: Java
  • Spring Boot: 2.4.4 (the preferred version is 2.4+; if not available, you can later modify it manually in the build.gradle file)
  • Project Metadata:

    Group: com.packt.modern.api

    Artifact: chapter14

    Name: chapter14

    Description...