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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

Running the application

We’re still in the development phase, so we need to start both the frontend and backend applications in dev mode. To start the Quarkus backend, just as we’ve done previously, we’ll execute the following command from the project root:

./mvnw quarkus:dev

The backend server should start and be ready to serve requests. Next, in a different terminal, and from the frontend project location (src/main/frontend), we’ll execute the following command:

npm start

The frontend application should start and a browser window should open automatically at http://localhost:3000. The page should load and automatically redirect us to http://localhost:3000/login:

Figure 8.4 – A screenshot of a browser pointing to http://localhost:3000/login

Now, let’s log in with the administrator credentials by entering admin in the username field, quarkus in the password field, and pressing the SIGN IN button. The...