Technical requirements

The Spring Boot application that we created in Chapter 4, Securing and Testing Your Backend, is required (GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Full-Stack-Development-with-Spring-Boot-2.0-and-React/tree/master/Chapter%204).

The React app that we used in the previous chapter is also required (GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Full-Stack-Development-with-Spring-Boot-2.0-and-React/tree/master/Chapter%2011).

Docker installation is necessary.

Deploying the backend

If you are going to use your own server, the easiest way to deploy the Spring Boot application is to use an executable JAR file. An executable JAR file is generated, if you use Maven, in the...