Hinkula - Hands-on full stack development with Spring Boot 2 and React: build modern and scalable full stack applications using Spring Framework 5 and React with Hooks

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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 15 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 nowadays also uses React Native.

Krunal Patel has over 10 years of experience in enterprise application development using Java, Spring, Hibernate, and Liferay Portal. He has expertise in domains such as healthcare, insurance, and hospitality. He has executed many enterprise projects based on Liferay Portal that use Elasticsearch and LDAP integration. He was a co-author of Java 9 Dependency Injection, published by Packt Publishing, and also was a technical reviewer for books such as Mastering Apache Solr 7.x and Spring 5.0 Blueprints.
He received an ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management in 2015, a Liferay 6.1 Developer Certification in 2013, was Brainbench Java 6 certified in 2013, and received a MongoDB for Java Developers certification in 2013 .

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In this book, we will create a modern web application using Spring Boot 2.0 and React. We will start from the backend and develop a RESTful web service using Spring Boot and MariaDB. We will also secure the backend and create unit tests for it. The frontend will be developed using the React JavaScript library. Different third-party React components will be used to make the frontend more user friendly. Finally, the application will be deployed to Heroku. The book also demonstrates how to Dockerize our backend.

This book is written for the following audiences:

• Frontend developers who want to learn full stack development
• Backend developers who want to learn full stack development
• Full stack developers who have used some other technologies
• Java developers who are familiar with Spring, but haven't ever built a full-stack application

, Setting Up the Environment and Tools Backend , explains how to install the software needed for backend development and how to create your first Spring Boot application.

, Dependency Injection , introduces dependency injection and explains how to use it with Spring Boot.

, Using JPA to Create and Access a Database , introduces Java Persistence API (JPA)and explains how to create and access databases with Spring Boot.

, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot , shows how to create RESTful web services using Spring Data REST.

, Securing and Testing Your Backend , explains how to secure your backend using Spring Security and