Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

Apart from knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a full-stack engineer has to tackle all the problems that are encountered in the application development life cycle, starting from a simple idea to UI design, the technical design, and all the way to implementing, testing, production, deployment, and monitoring. This book covers the full set of technologies that you need to know to become a full-stack web developer with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend.

This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to build a modern full-stack application in practice. This book will teach you how to build RESTful API endpoints and work with the data access Layer of Spring, using Hibernate as the ORM. As we move ahead, you will be introduced to the other components of Spring, such as Spring Security, which will teach you how to secure the backend. Then, we will move on to the frontend, where you will be introduced to React, a modern JavaScript library for building fast and reliable user interfaces, and its app development environment and components.

You will also create a Docker container for your application. Finally, the book will lay out the best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.

What you will learn:

Create a RESTful web service with Spring Boot
Understand how to use React for frontend programming
Gain knowledge of how to create unit tests using JUnit
Discover the techniques that go into securing the backend using Spring Security
Learn how to use Material UI in the user interface to make it more user-friendly
Create a React app by using the Create React App starter kit made by Facebook

Java developers who are familiar with Spring, but have not yet built full-stack applications.