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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

Designing e-commerce app components

Design is not only a key part of the user experience (UX)/a UI, but is also important for frontend developers. Based on the design, you can create reusable and maintainable components. However, a sample e-commerce app is a simple application that does not need much attention. You will create the following components in this application:

  • Product listing component: A component that displays all the products and also acts as a home page. Each product in the listing will be displayed as a card with the product name, price, and two buttons—Buy now and Add to bag. The following screenshot displays the Product listing page, which shows product information along with an image of the product:

Figure 7.3 – Product listing page (home page)

  • Product detail component: This is a component that displays details of the clicked product. It displays the product image, product name, product description, tags,...