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

By : Juha Hinkula
Book Image

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

Props and the state

Props and the state are the input data for rendering the component. Both props and the state are actually JavaScript objects, and the component is re-rendered when the props or the state change.

The props are immutable, so the component cannot change its props. The props are received from the parent component. The component can access the props through the this.props object. For example, let's take a look at the following component:

class Hello extends React.Component {
render() {
return <h1>Hello World {this.props.user}</h1>;
}
}

The parent component can send props to the Hello component in the following way:

<Hello user="John" />

When the Hello component is rendered, it shows the Hello World John text.

The state can be changed inside the component. The initial value of the state is given in the component's constructor...