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You're reading from Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React Build modern and scalable full stack applications using the Java-based Spring Framework 5.0 and React

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789138085

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

React

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

Juha Hinkula

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend FREE CHAPTER

2. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database

3. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot

4. Securing and Testing Your Backend

5. Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend

6. Getting Started with React

7. Consuming the REST API with React

8. Useful Third-Party Components for React

9. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service

10. Adding CRUD Functionalities

11. Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI

12. Testing Your Frontend

13. Securing Your Application

14. Deploying Your Application

15. Best Practices

16. Assessments

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

In this book, we are using the Windows operating system but all tools are available for Linux and macOS as Node.js and create-react-app have to be installed.

Using third-party React components

There are a lot of nice React components available for different purposes. Our first task is to find a suitable component for your needs. One good site for searching components is JS.coach (https://js.coach/). You just have to type in a keyword, search, and select React from the list of frameworks. In the following screenshot, you can see the search of the table components for React:

Another good source for React components is Awesome React Components (https://github.com/brillout/awesome-react-components).

Components often have good documentation that helps you to utilize them in your own React app. Let's see how we can install a third-party component to our app and start to use it. Navigate to the JS.coach site, type list to search the input field, and filter by React. From the...