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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

Quarkus Integration

In this chapter, we’ll learn how to integrate the React frontend and Quarkus backend projects so that the application can be deployed and distributed as a single service monolith. We’ll start by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of a microservice distributed architecture over a monolithic one, and evaluate why we should prefer a monolithic deployment for our task manager. Then, we’ll learn how to set the Quarkus Maven configuration to build the frontend project and account for its generated resources. Next, we’ll implement a Quarkus HTTP resource that will serve the frontend files and learn how to configure the application for a native build.

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to configure a Maven project and implement the required Quarkus logic to be able to serve a single-page application (SPA) from Quarkus. Serving a JavaScript frontend application from Quarkus can be very useful to ease deploying simple applications...