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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

Introduction to Spring

Spring is a framework and is written in the Java language. It provides lots of modules, such as Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Spring Web, and so on. It is popular for building enterprise applications. Initially, it was looked at as a Java Enterprise Edition (EE) alternative. However, over the years, it has been preferred over Java EE. Spring supports Dependency Injection (Inversion of Control) and Aspect-Oriented Programming out of the box as its core. Apart from Java, Spring also supports other JVM languages such as Groovy and Kotlin.

With the introduction of Spring Boot, building web services have hit the nail right on the head as far as turnaround time for development is concerned. You hit the ground running immediately. This is huge and one of the reasons why Spring has become so popular lately.

Covering the Spring fundamentals itself requires a dedicated book. I'll try to be concise and cover all the features required for you to...