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Full Stack Quarkus and React

By : Marc Nuri San Felix
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Full Stack Quarkus and React

By: Marc Nuri San Felix

Overview of this book

React has established itself as one of the most popular and widely adopted frameworks thanks to its simple yet scalable app development abilities. Quarkus comes across as a fantastic alternative for backend development by boosting developer productivity with features such as pre-built integrations, application services, and more that bring a new, revolutionary developer experience to Java. To make the best use of both, this hands-on guide will help you get started with Quarkus and React to create and deploy an end-to-end web application. This book is divided into three parts. In the first part, you’ll begin with an introduction to Quarkus and its features, learning how to bootstrap a Quarkus project from the ground up to create a tested and secure HTTP server for your backend. The second part focuses on the frontend, showing you how to create a React project from scratch to build the application’s user interface and integrate it with the Quarkus backend. The last part guides you through creating cluster configuration manifests and deploying them to Kubernetes as well as other alternatives, such as Fly.io. By the end of this full stack development book, you’ll be confident in your skills to combine the robustness of both frameworks to create and deploy standalone, fully functional web applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1– Creating a Backend with Quarkus
8
Part 2– Creating a Frontend with React
14
Part 3– Deploying Your Application to the Cloud

Building a native executable in Quarkus

In the What is Quarkus? section in Chapter 1, Bootstrapping the Project, we learned that Quarkus was built from the ground up to be cloud-native by considerably improving the application’s startup time and memory footprint. To improve the application’s boot time, Quarkus moves many of the tasks that classic Java applications perform at runtime to build time.

Every time a traditional Java application boots, it loads and analyzes configuration files, scans for annotations, builds a dependency tree, and so on, before even starting with the application’s execution logic. Quarkus, on the other hand, rethinks the problem and moves most of these tasks to build time where the results are recorded as part of the application’s bytecode. This way, Quarkus can start with the application’s execution logic right away from the moment the application boots, which considerably improves the overall startup time and memory...