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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)
1
Part 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot
7
Part 2: Frontend Programming with React
12
Part 3: Full Stack Development

Preparing the Spring Boot backend

We are beginning frontend development with the unsecured version of our backend. In the first phase, we will implement all CRUD functionalities and test that these are working correctly. In the second phase, we will enable security in our backend, make the modifications that are required, and finally, implement authentication.

Open the Spring Boot application with Eclipse, which we created in Chapter 5, Securing and Testing Your Backend. Open the SecurityConfig.java file that defines the Spring Security configuration. Temporarily comment out the current configuration and give everyone access to all endpoints. Refer to the following modifications:

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    // Add this row
    http.csrf().disable().cors().and()
      .authorizeRequests().anyRequest().permitAll();
    /* Comment this out
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