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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React - Second Edition

By : Juha Hinkula
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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React - Second Edition

By: Juha Hinkula

Overview of this book

React Hooks have changed the way React components are coded. They enable you to write components in a more intuitive way without using classes, which makes your code easier to read and maintain. Building on from the previous edition, this book is updated with React Hooks and the latest changes introduced in create-react-app and Spring Boot 2.1. This book starts with a brief introduction to Spring Boot. You’ll understand how to use dependency injection and work with the data access layer of Spring using Hibernate as the ORM tool. You’ll then learn how to build your own RESTful API endpoints for web applications. As you advance, the book introduces you to other Spring components, such as Spring Security to help you secure the backend. Moving on, you’ll explore React and its app development environment and components for building your frontend. Finally, you’ll create a Docker container for your application by implementing the best practices that underpin professional full stack web development. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the knowledge you need to build modern full stack applications with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot
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Section 2: Frontend Programming with React
12
Section 3: Full Stack Development

Material-UI component library

Material-UI is the React component library that implements Google's material design. It contains a lot of different components, such as buttons, lists, tables, and cards, that you can use to achieve a nice and uniform UI. We will create a small shopping list app and style the user interface using Material-UI components:

  1. Create a new React app called shoppinglist :
npx create-react-app shoppinglist
  1. Open the shopping list app with VS Code. Install Material-UI by typing the following command in the project root folder to PowerShell or any suitable terminal you are using:
npm install @material-ui/core

OR with yarn

yarn add @material-ui/core
  1. Open the App.js file and remove all the code inside the App div. Now, your App.js file should look like the following and you should see an empty page in the browser:
import React from 'react';
import...