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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

Introducing Fly.io

In Chapter 12, Deploying Your Application to Kubernetes, we learned how to containerize our application and deploy it to Kubernetes. In this case, we leveraged a local Minikube Kubernetes cluster since getting access to a public Kubernetes cluster might be difficult or expensive for you. Knowing how to deploy the application to Kubernetes is a valuable asset considering it’s becoming the standard cloud platform these days. However, unless you used a public cluster instead of Minikube, so far, your application can only be consumed from your local machine.

In this chapter, we’ll learn how to deploy the application to Fly.io, a new cloud PaaS provider that is becoming very popular thanks to its free plans. The main reason for choosing this platform is that it offers a free plan suitable for our application’s needs. By the end of this chapter, our application will be publicly exposed and accessible from anywhere in the world.

Fly.io is a platform...