Get up and running with the Spring Boot and React stack – build an app from start to finish, test the frontend and backend, and deploy. Now with TypeScript code!

Key Features

• Use Spring Boot 3 to create powerful, complex, and secure backends for your applications
• Leverage React to build slick, high-performance frontends
• Get introduced to TypeScript, Vite, and React Query for React development

Book Description

If you’re an existing Java developer who wants to go full stack or pick up another frontend framework, this book is your concise introduction to React. In this three-part build-along, you’ll create a robust Spring Boot backend, a React frontend, and then deploy them together.

This new edition is updated to Spring Boot 3 and includes expanded content on security and testing. For the first time ever, it also covers React development with the in-demand TypeScript.

You’ll explore the elements that go into creating a REST API and testing, securing, and deploying your applications. You’ll learn about custom Hooks, third-party components, and MUI.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to build a full stack application using the latest tools and modern best practices.

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
• Harness the Material UI component library to customize your frontend
• Use the fetch API, Axios, and React Query for networking
• Add CRUD functionality to your apps Deploy your apps using AWS and Docker

Who this book is for

This book is for Java developers who have basic familiarity with Spring Boot but don’t know where to start when it comes to building full stack applications. Basic knowledge of JavaScript and HTML will help you to follow along.

You'll also find this book useful if you're a frontend developer with knowledge of JavaScript basics and 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 Your Backend
6. Testing Your Backend
7. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend
8. Getting Started with React
9. Introduction to TypeScript
10. Consuming the REST API with React
11. Useful Third-Party Components for React
12. Setting up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service
13. Adding CRUD Functionalities
14. Styling the Frontend with MUI
15. Testing Your Frontend
16. Securing Your Application
17. Deploying Your Application

About the Author

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 and 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.