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

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This comprehensive guide focuses on building full stack applications, covering frontend and server-side programming, data management, and web security. Key features include leveraging React Hooks to create interactive user interfaces and using the Axios library for simplified CRUD operations. The book, updated with the latest advancements in create-react-app and Spring Boot 2.1, begins with an introduction to Spring Boot, emphasizing dependency injection and the data access layer with Hibernate as the ORM tool. Readers will learn to build RESTful API endpoints for web applications and explore Spring components like Spring Security for backend security. The book also delves into React, its development environment, and components for frontend creation. Additionally, it guides readers in creating a Docker container for their application, adhering to professional full stack web development best practices. By the end, readers will be equipped to build modern full stack applications using Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend. Key learning outcomes include creating RESTful web services, understanding dependency injection, securing backends with Spring Security, deploying applications on Heroku, creating unit tests with JUnit, and utilizing the Material UI component library for enhanced user interfaces. This resource is ideal for Java developers familiar with Spring who are new to full stack application developme