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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Chapter 1

  1. Spring Boot is a Java-based web application framework that is based on Spring. With Spring Boot, you can develop standalone web applications with embedded application servers.
  2. Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment (IDE), and it is mostly used for Java programming, but it supports multiple other programming languages as well.
  3. Maven is an open source software project-management tool. Maven can manage builds, documentation, testing, and more in the software development project.
  4. The easiest way to start a new Spring Boot project is to create it with the Spring Initializr web page. This creates a skeleton for your project with the modules that you need.
  5. If you are using the Eclipse IDE, you just activate your main class and press the Run button. You can also use the mvn spring-boot:run Maven command to run an application.
  6. The Spring Boot starter package...