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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

RESTful API characteristics


Web service APIs that adhere to the REST architectural constraints are called RESTful APIs. Before we talk about the characteristics of RESTful APIs, let's first go through the architectural constraints of this REST architectural style that Roy T. Fielding introduced in his dissertation. This will help us understand what REST is really about.

REST architectural constraints

In his dissertation, Roy T. Fielding listed the following architectural constraints that a RESTful system must conform to.

Client-server

This constraint is about separation of concerns. In the client-server architecture style, user interface concerns are separated from data storage concerns. Web applications fit this style naturally, with the frontend living inside browsers as a client, which then talks to the server through APIs.

Another well-known architectural style is event-based integration architecture, in which components of a system broadcast events over the network and at the same time listen...