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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

Bootstrapping the Project

In this book, we’ll be creating a full-stack web application from scratch using Quarkus for the backend and React for the frontend. Quarkus is a new framework that aims to turn around the current Java ecosystem by simplifying the development of cloud-native applications and improving the developer experience. ReactJS is one of the most popular frontend JavaScript libraries. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to combine both frameworks to create and deploy a full-featured task manager web application.

In this chapter, we’ll provide a basic introduction to Quarkus and the tools that we’ll be using across this section. Then, we’ll create a Quarkus project from scratch and explain the basic architecture and structure of the application. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to create a Quarkus project and have a working development environment to implement the new features. You should also be able to package and run your application from your machine.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

  • What is Quarkus?
  • Setting up the work environment with IntelliJ IDEA
  • Bootstrapping a Quarkus application
  • Project structure and dependencies