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Learning Spring Boot 2.0 - Second Edition

By : Greg L. Turnquist, Greg L. Turnquist
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Learning Spring Boot 2.0 - Second Edition

By: Greg L. Turnquist, Greg L. Turnquist

Overview of this book

Spring Boot provides a variety of features that address today's business needs along with today's scalable requirements. In this book, you will learn how to leverage powerful databases and Spring Boot's state-of-the-art WebFlux framework. This practical guide will help you get up and running with all the latest features of Spring Boot, especially the new Reactor-based toolkit. The book starts off by helping you build a simple app, then shows you how to bundle and deploy it to the cloud. From here, we take you through reactive programming, showing you how to interact with controllers and templates and handle data access. Once you're done, you can start writing unit tests, slice tests, embedded container tests, and even autoconfiguration tests. We go into detail about developer tools, AMQP messaging, WebSockets, security, and deployment. You will learn how to secure your application using both routes and method-based rules. By the end of the book, you'll have built a social media platform from which to apply the lessons you have learned to any problem. If you want a good understanding of building scalable applications using the core functionality of Spring Boot, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we crafted unit tests using JUnit and AssertJ. Then we performed slice-based tests against MongoDB using Spring Boot's @DataMongoTest annotation, with and without embedded MongoDB. We tested WebFlux controllers, ensuring they operated correctly. We also wrote end-to-end tests with Spring Boot spinning up an entire embedded web container so that Selenium WebDriver could drive it from the browser. Finally, we put together an autoconfiguration policy for Selenium WebDriver using test-first practices to verify that it worked.

In the next chapter, we will explore the developer tools provided by Spring Boot to ease the tasks we all must deal with.