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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 7: Designing a User Interface

In the previous chapter, you implemented authentication and authorization using Spring Security, which also includes all the sample e-commerce app application programming interfaces (APIs). In this chapter, you will develop the frontend of a sample e-commerce app using the React library. This user interface (UI) app will then consume the APIs developed in the previous chapter, Chapter 6, Security (Authorization and Authentication). This UI app will be a single-page application (SPA) that consists of interactive components such as Login, Product Listing, Product Detail, Cart, and Order Listing. This chapter will conclude the end-to-end development and communication between different layers of an online shopping app. By the end of the chapter, you will have learned about SPAs, UI component development using React, and consuming the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) APIs using the browser built-in Fetch API.

This chapter will cover the following...