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Learning Spring Boot 3.0 - Third Edition

By : Greg L. Turnquist
Book Image

Learning Spring Boot 3.0 - Third Edition

By: Greg L. Turnquist

Overview of this book

Spring Boot 3 brings more than just the powerful ability to build secure web apps on top of a rock-solid database. It delivers new options for testing, deployment, Docker support, and native images for GraalVM, along with ways to squeeze out more efficient usage of existing resources. This third edition of the bestseller starts off by helping you build a simple app, and then shows you how to secure, test, bundle, and deploy it to production. Next, you’ll familiarize yourself with the ability to go “native” and release using GraalVM. As you advance, you’ll explore reactive programming and get a taste of scalable web controllers and data operations. The book goes into detail about GraalVM native images and deployment, teaching you how to secure your application using both routes and method-based rules and enabling you to apply the lessons you’ve learned to any problem. If you want to gain a thorough understanding of building robust applications using the core functionality of Spring Boot, then this is the book for you. By the end of this Spring Boot book, you’ll be able to build an entire suite of web applications using Spring Boot and deploy them to any platform you need.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of Spring Boot
3
Part 2: Creating an Application with Spring Boot
8
Part 3: Releasing an Application with Spring Boot
12
Part 4: Scaling an Application with Spring Boot

Hooking in Node.js to a Spring Boot web app

So, do we need our web app to use JavaScript? To be honest, what web app doesn’t need JavaScript? It’s only the de facto standard tool found in every web browser on the planet.

In case you didn’t know it, JavaScript is a completely different world when it comes to tools and app building. So, how do we cross this vast gulf between Java and JavaScript developer tooling?

In a nutshell, we need to enter the world of Node.js. And to our fortune, there is a Maven plugin that can bridge this gap for us, known as the Maven frontend plugin (frontend-maven-plugin).

This plugin unites Node.js actions with Maven’s lifecycles, allowing us to properly invoke Node.js at the right time to download packages and assemble JavaScript code into a bundle.

Of course, compiling and bundling a JavaScript payload is for naught if there was no way for Spring Boot to bring it online.

Thankfully, Spring Boot has a solution....