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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

Overview of the service design

We are going to implement a multilayered architecture that comprises four layers – the presentation layer, application layer, domain layer, and infrastructure layer. Multilayered architecture is a fundamental building block in the architecture style known as Domain-Driven Design (DDD). Let's have a brief look at each of these layers:

  • Presentation layer: This layer represents the User Interface (UI). In the upcoming Chapter 7, Designing a User Interface, we'll develop the UI for our e-commerce app.
  • Application layer: The application layer contains the application logic and maintains and coordinates the overall flow of the application. Just to remind you, it only contains the application logic and not the business logic. RESTful web services, async APIs, gRPC APIs, and GraphQL APIs are a part of this layer.

    We already covered the REST API interfaces and controllers (implementing REST API interfaces) in Chapter 3, API Specifications...