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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

Summary

In this chapter, we used JPA to create our Spring Boot application database. First, we created entity classes, which are mapped to database tables. Then, we created CrudRepository for our entity class, which provides CRUD operations for the entity. After that, we managed to add some demo data to our database by using CommandLineRunner. We also created one-to-many relationships between two entities. At the beginning of this chapter, we used the H2 in-memory database, while at the end, we switched the database to MariaDB.

In the next chapter, we will create a RESTful web service for our backend. We will also look at testing the RESTful web service with the curl command-line tool, and also by using Postman GUI.