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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

Summary

I hope you enjoyed learning about Reactive API development with an asynchronous, non-blocking, and functional paradigm. At first glance, you may find it complicated if you are not very familiar with the fluent and functional paradigm, but with practice, you'll start writing only functional-style code. Definitely, familiarity with Java Streams and functions gives you an edge to grasp the concepts easily.

Now that you have reached the end of the chapter, you have the skills to write functional and Reactive code. Now you can write Reactive, asynchronous, and non-blocking code and REST APIs. You also learned about R2DBC, which will become more solid and enhanced in the future as long as Reactive programming is there.

In the next chapter, we'll explore the security aspect of RESTful service development.