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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

Creating an HTTP resource to serve the React application from Quarkus

One of the essential parts of the React and Quarkus integration is providing a way for the Quarkus backend to serve the React SPA frontend files. In Figure 11.1, we can see a diagram of the components of our application when deployed as microservices. One of the illustrated elements is the API gateway, which, in this case, is provided as an external component. For a monolithic approach, we’ll need to implement an alternative to this gateway ourselves.

In the Static resources section of Chapter 1, Bootstrapping the Project, we learned that Quarkus automatically serves the static files in the src/main/resources/META-INF directory at the root path. You might be wondering why we should go through the trouble of implementing additional HTTP endpoints when we could simply configure the build process to copy the React build files to this directory or its effective compilation path (target/classes/META-INF/resources...