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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
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Section 3: Full Stack Development

Routing

There are multiple solutions available for routing in React. The most popular one, which we are using, is React Router (https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router). For web applications, React Router provides a package called react-router-dom.

To start using React Router, we have to install it with the following command:

npm install react-router-dom

There are four different components in react-router-dom that are required to implement routing. BrowserRouter is the router for web-based applications. The Route component renders the defined component if the given locations match. The following are two examples of the Route component. The first one renders the Contact component when the user navigates to the /contact end path. You can also use inline rendering with the Route component, as shown in the following example:

<Route path="/contact" component={Contact...