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Full Stack Quarkus and React

By : Marc Nuri San Felix
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Full Stack Quarkus and React

By: Marc Nuri San Felix

Overview of this book

React has established itself as one of the most popular and widely adopted frameworks thanks to its simple yet scalable app development abilities. Quarkus comes across as a fantastic alternative for backend development by boosting developer productivity with features such as pre-built integrations, application services, and more that bring a new, revolutionary developer experience to Java. To make the best use of both, this hands-on guide will help you get started with Quarkus and React to create and deploy an end-to-end web application. This book is divided into three parts. In the first part, you’ll begin with an introduction to Quarkus and its features, learning how to bootstrap a Quarkus project from the ground up to create a tested and secure HTTP server for your backend. The second part focuses on the frontend, showing you how to create a React project from scratch to build the application’s user interface and integrate it with the Quarkus backend. The last part guides you through creating cluster configuration manifests and deploying them to Kubernetes as well as other alternatives, such as Fly.io. By the end of this full stack development book, you’ll be confident in your skills to combine the robustness of both frameworks to create and deploy standalone, fully functional web applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1– Creating a Backend with Quarkus
8
Part 2– Creating a Frontend with React
14
Part 3– Deploying Your Application to the Cloud

Setting up the authentication workflow

In Chapter 4, Securing the Application, we learned how to implement a security layer in Quarkus using JWT, and then used it to protect the backend side of the task manager. Attempting to consume the HTTP API from the frontend without an adequate authentication workflow and infrastructure would result in forbidden and unauthorized responses. In this chapter, we’ll see how to create an auth service that will enable us to perform login requests to obtain a JWT and use it to authorize the requests to protected endpoints.

Now, let’s learn how to set up Quarkus to be able to consume its API from a React application running in dev mode.

Configuring Quarkus for React dev mode

When we deliver our application to a production environment, both the React frontend side and the HTTP API will be served by Quarkus. However, during the development phase, we’ll be running the React application in dev mode using the npm start command...