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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

By : Juha Hinkula
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

By: Juha Hinkula

Overview of this book

Apart from knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a full-stack engineer has to tackle all the problems that are encountered in the application development life cycle, starting from a simple idea to UI design, the technical design, and all the way to implementing, testing, production, deployment, and monitoring. This book covers the full set of technologies that you need to know to become a full-stack web developer with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend. This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to build a modern full-stack application in practice. This book will teach you how to build RESTful API endpoints and work with the data access Layer of Spring, using Hibernate as the ORM. As we move ahead, you will be introduced to the other components of Spring, such as Spring Security, which will teach you how to secure the backend. Then, we will move on to the frontend, where you will be introduced to React, a modern JavaScript library for building fast and reliable user interfaces, and its app development environment and components. You will also create a Docker container for your application. Finally, the book will lay out the best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing VS Code


Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open source code editor for multiple programming languages. VS Code is developed by Microsoft. There are a lot of different code editors available, such as Atom, Brackets, and others, and you can use something other than VS Code if you are familiar with it. VS Code is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux and you can download it from https://code.visualstudio.com/.

Installation for Windows is done with the MSI installer and you can do the installation with default settings. The following screenshot shows the workbench of VS Code. On the left side is the activity bar, which you can use to navigate between different views. Next to the activity bar is a side bar, which contains different views, such as project file explorer.

The editor takes up the rest of the workbench:

VS Code also has an integrated terminal that you can use to create and run React apps. The terminal can be found in the View|Integrated Terminal menu. You can also use this...