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Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Sourabh Sharma
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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

Chapter 14 – GraphQL API Development and Testing

  1. You should prefer a framework such as Netflix DGS in place of the graphql-java library to implement the GraphQL APIs because it bootstraps the development and avoids writing boilerplate code.
  2. Apart from the ease of development, the framework uses graphql-java internally, therefore it keeps itself in sync with the GraphQL specification's Java implementation. It also supports developing federated GraphQL services.
  3. It also provides plugins, the Java client, and testing utilities that help you to automate the development. The Netflix DGS framework is well tested and has been used by Netflix in production for quite some time.
  4. A federated GraphQL service contains a single distributed graph exposed using a gateway. Clients call the gateway, which is an entry point to the system. A data graph will be distributed among multiple services and each service can maintain its own development and release cycle independently...