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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is being used widely by developers because of its light weight, built-in null safety, and functional and reactive programming aspects. Kotlin shares the same pragmatic, innovative and opinionated mindset as Spring, so they work well together. Spring when combined with Kotlin helps you to reach a new level of productivity. This combination has helped developers to create Functional Applications using both the tools together. This book will teach you how to take advantage of these developments and build robust, scalable and reactive applications with ease. In this book, you will begin with an introduction to Spring and its setup with Kotlin. You will then dive into assessing the design considerations of your application. Then you will learn to use Spring (with Spring Boot) along with Kotlin to build a robust backend in a microservice architecture with a REST based collaboration, and leverage Project Reactor in your application. You’ll then learn how to integrate Spring Data and Spring Cloud to manage configurations for database interaction and cloud deployment. You’ll also learn to use Spring Security to beef up security of your application before testing it with the JUnit framework and then deploying it on a cloud platform like AWS.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

Discussion of good software and development practices in Spring is an endless topic. In this chapter, we identified some of the most important practices to consider. Try to think about the good and bad practices we discussed and, most importantly, try to practice them for a while. You will notice that the quality of the applications you develop will improve significantly. Also, try to be open-minded regarding other good practice suggestions and think about how you could benefit from them. Most importantly, avoid bad practices since many of them can lead you astray.

In the next chapter, we will cover one particularly good development practice: we will write unit tests for our code. We will demonstrate how to write tests and provide guidance on how to make use of them. Be patient, try every example that follows, and consider how you could use them to test some of your own...