Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React

Discover the secrets to creating cutting-edge, compelling full stack applications using Spring Boot and React’s rich and varied toolsets

Key Features

• Utilize Spring Boot to make powerful, complex, and secure backends for your applications
• Leverage React’s full arsenal of tools for building slick, high-performance frontends
• Build modern, scalable full stack applications that comfortably meet the demands of your users

Book Description

Getting started with full stack development can be daunting. Even developers who are familiar with the best tools, such as Spring Boot and React, can struggle to nail the basics, let alone master the more advanced elements. If you’re one of these developers, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need!

This updated edition of the Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React book will take you from novice to proficient in this expansive domain. Taking a practical approach, this book will first walk you through the latest Spring Boot features for creating a robust backend, covering everything from setting up the environment and dependency injection to security and testing.

Once this has been covered, you’ll advance to React frontend programming. If you’ve ever wondered about custom Hooks, third-party components, and MUI, this book will demystify all that and much more. You’ll explore everything that goes into developing, testing, securing, and deploying your applications using all the latest tools from Spring Boot, React, and other cutting-edge technologies.

By the end of this book, you'll not only have learned the theory of building modern full stack applications but also have developed valuable skills that add value in any setting.

What you will learn

• Make fast and RESTful web services powered by Spring Data REST
• Create and manage databases using ORM, JPA, Hibernate, and more
• Explore the use of unit tests and JWTs with Spring Security
• Employ React Hooks, props, states, and more to create your frontend
• Discover a wide array of advanced React and third-party components
• Build high-performance applications complete with CRUD functionality
• Harness MUI to customize your frontend
• Test, secure, and deploy your applications with high efficiency

Who this book is for

This book is for Java developers who are familiar with Spring Boot but don’t know where to start when it comes to building full stack applications. You'll also find this book useful if you're a frontend developer with knowledge of JavaScript basics looking to learn full stack development or a full stack developer experienced in other technology stacks looking to learn a new one.

Table of Contents

1. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend
2. Understanding Dependency Injection
3. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database
4. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot
5. Securing and Testing Your Backend
6. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend
7. Getting Started with React
8. Consuming the REST API with React
9. Useful Third-Party Components for React
10. Setting up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service
11. Adding CRUD Functionalities
12. Styling the Frontend with React MUI
13. Testing Your Frontend
14. Securing Your Application
15. Deploying Your Application
16. Best Practices

Juha Hinkula is a software development lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He received an MSc degree in computer science from the University of Helsinki. He has over 17 years of industry experience in software development. Over the past few years, he has focused on modern full stack development. He is also a passionate mobile developer with Android-native technology, and also uses React Native.