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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

Converting OAS to Spring code

I am sure you are as excited as I am to start implementing the API. So far, we have learned about the RESTful web service theory and concepts and Spring fundamentals, as well as designing our first API specs for a sample e-commerce application.

Either you can clone the Git repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-API-Development-with-Spring-and-Spring-Boot) or you can start to create a Spring project from scratch using Spring Initializr (https://start.spring.io/) with the following options:

  • Project: Gradle
  • Language: Java
  • Spring Boot: 2.3.5.RELEASE
  • Project metadata with your preferred values
  • Packaging: JarAdded
  • Java: 15 (You can change it to 14 in the build.gradle file later.)
  • Dependencies: 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web' (Spring Web in Spring Initializer)

Once you open the project in your favorite IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse, or NetBeans), you can add the following extra dependencies...