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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

Summary

In this chapter, we gave a quick introduction to Quarkus and saw what its main advantages and breakthroughs for the Java ecosystem are. We created a new Quarkus project using the Quarkus website and opened it in IntelliJ IDEA. We reviewed the contents and structure of the bootstrapped project. We checked the dependencies, plugins, and the provided source code, and we learned how to package and run the sample application.

You should now have a broad view of Quarkus and be ready to start implementing the full-stack web application that we’ll be developing throughout the book. In the next chapter, we’ll see how to add a persistence layer to the task manager application, define the entity classes, and connect it to a database.