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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL. You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: RESTful Web Services
7
Section 2: Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Section 3: gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Section 4: GraphQL

Testing GraphQL queries and mutations

Let's write queries and mutations in a real GraphQL schema to test the skill you have learned throughout this chapter.

You are going to use GitHub's GraphQL API explorer in this section. Let's perform the following steps:

  1. First, go to https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer.
  2. You might have to authorize it using your GitHub account, so that you can execute GraphQL queries.
  3. GitHub Explorer is based on GraphiQL. It is divided into three vertical sections (from left to right):

    a. There are two two subsections – an upper section for writing a query and a bottom section for defining variables.

    b. The middle vertical section shows the response.

    c. Normally, the rightmost section is hidden. Click on the Docs link to display it. It shows the respective documentation and schema, along with the root types that you can explore.

  4. Let's fire this query to find out the ID of the repository you wish to...