What this book covers

Chapter 1, 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.

Chapter 2, Using JPA to Create and Access a Database, introduces JPA and explains how to create and access databases with Spring Boot.

Chapter 3, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot, shows how to create RESTful Web Services using Spring Data REST.

Chapter 4, Securing and Testing Your Backend, explains how to secure your backend using Spring Security and JWT.

Chapter 5, Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend, explains how to install the software needed for frontend development.

Chapter 6, Getting Started with React, introduces the basics of the React library.

Chapter 7, Consuming the REST API with React, shows how to use REST APIs with React using the Fetch API.

Chapter 8, Useful Third-Party Components for React, demonstrates some handy components that we'll use in our frontend development.

Chapter 9, Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service, explains how to set up the React app and Spring Boot backend for frontend development.

Chapter 10, Adding CRUD Functionalities, shows how to implement CRUD functionalities to the React frontend.

Chapter 11, Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI, shows how to polish the user interface using the React Material-UI component library.

Chapter 12, Testing Your Frontend, explains the basics of React frontend testing. 

Chapter 13, Securing Your Application, explains how to secure the frontend using JWT.

Chapter 14, Deploying Your Application, demonstrates how to deploy an application to Heroku and how to use Docker containers.

Chapter 15, Best Practices, explains the basic technologies that are needed to become a full stack developer and covers some basic best practices for software development.