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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

Chapter 7

  1. Components are the basic building blocks of React apps. The React component can be created using a JavaScript function or the ES6 class.
  2. The props and state are the input data for rendering the component. They are JavaScript objects, and the component is rerendered when the props or state change.
  3. The data flow goes from the parent component to the child.
  4. The components that only have props are called stateless components. The components that have both props and a state are called stateful components.
  5. JSX is the syntax extension for JavaScript, and it is recommended that you use it with React.
  6. The component life cycle methods are executed at certain phases of the component's life cycle.
  7. Handling events in React is similar to handling DOM element events. The difference in React is that event naming uses the camelCase naming convention—for example, onClick...