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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

Testing the application’s features

When implementing an application, especially if you’re following a test-driven development (TDD) approach, it might be more interesting to write tests that verify the behavior of an actual application feature from the user’s perspective rather than specific units of code from a component’s technical perspective. The resulting tests will provide value from a business point of view and ensure, in an automated and sustainable way, that the application as a whole behaves according to what was requested in its specification. For this purpose, we’ll create the following files:

  • src/auth/auth.test.js
  • src/projects/projects.test.js
  • src/tasks/tasks.test.js
  • src/users/users.test.js

Each of these files will contain tests that verify the application’s features related to its containing module work as expected. For example, the users.test.js file contains tests that verify the task manager’...