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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

Understanding Spring Security

Spring Security (https://spring.io/projects/spring-security) provides security services for Java-based web applications. The Spring Security project was started in 2003 and was previously named Acegi Security System for Spring.

By default, Spring Security enables the following features:

  • An AuthenticationManager bean with an in-memory single user. The username is user, and the password is printed to the console output.
  • Ignored paths for common static resource locations, such as /css and /images. HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) basic security for all other endpoints.
  • Security events published to Spring's ApplicationEventPublisher interface.
  • Common low-level features are on by default (HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and so forth).
  • Default autogenerated login page.

You can include Spring Security in your application by adding the following dependencies...