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Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React - Third Edition

By : Juha Hinkula
Book Image

Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React - Third Edition

By: Juha Hinkula

Overview of this book

Getting started with full stack development can be daunting. Even developers who are familiar with the best tools, such as Spring Boot and React, can struggle to nail the basics, let alone master the more advanced elements. If you’re one of these developers, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need! This updated edition of the Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React book will take you from novice to proficient in this expansive domain. Taking a practical approach, this book will first walk you through the latest Spring Boot features for creating a robust backend, covering everything from setting up the environment and dependency injection to security and testing. Once this has been covered, you’ll advance to React frontend programming. If you’ve ever wondered about custom Hooks, third-party components, and MUI, this book will demystify all that and much more. You’ll explore everything that goes into developing, testing, securing, and deploying your applications using all the latest tools from Spring Boot, React, and other cutting-edge technologies. By the end of this book, you'll not only have learned the theory of building modern full stack applications but also have developed valuable skills that add value in any setting.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot
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Part 2: Frontend Programming with React
12
Part 3: Full Stack Development

Managing routing in React

There are multiple solutions available for routing in React. The most popular one, which we are using, is React Router (https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router). For web applications, React Router provides a package called react-router-dom.

To start using React Router, we have to install dependencies using the following command. In this book, we are using version React Router version 6:

npm install react-router-dom@6 history@5

Four different components in the react-router-dom library are required to implement routing. BrowserRouter is the router for web-based applications. The Route component renders the defined component if the given locations match.

The following code snippet provides an example of the Route component. The element prop defines a rendered component when the user navigates to the contact endpoint that is defined in the path prop. The path is relative to the parent route that renders them:

<Route path="contact&quot...