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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

Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs

In the previous chapter, we learned about the REST architecture style. Before we go and implement RESTful web services using Spring and Spring Boot, we need to have a proper understanding of the basic Spring concepts. In this chapter, you will learn about the Spring fundamentals and features that are required to implement RESTful web services using the Spring Framework. This will provide the technical perspective required for developing the sample e-commerce app. If you are already aware of the Spring fundamentals required for implementing RESTful APIs, you can move on to the next chapter.

We'll cover the following topics as part of this chapter:

  • Introduction to Spring
  • Learning the basic concepts of the Spring Framework
  • Working with the servlet dispatcher