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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
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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

Chapter 1 – RESTful Web Services Fundamentals

  1. RESTful became popular because it works on top of HTTP protocol, which is the backbone of the internet. You don't need separate protocol implementations such as SOAP. You can use the existing web technologies to implement the REST APIs, with simple application integration compared to other technologies available at the time. REST APIs make application integration simpler compared to other technologies available at the time.
  2. RESTful services work on REST, which works on web resources. Resources represent domain models. Actions are defined using HTTP methods, which are performed on web resources. It also allows clients to perform actions based on links available through Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State HATEOAS implementation, like a human who can navigate in the browser.
  3. RPC is more like functions that perform actions. RPC endpoints are directly formed based on verbs that lead to separate URLs for each...