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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

Writing HTTP REST endpoints in Quarkus

Quarkus provides several ways to implement HTTP and REST endpoints. In Chapter 1, Bootstrapping the Project, we learned about the imperative and reactive paradigms and how Quarkus can be used for both approaches. In this book, we are following the reactive approach to take advantage of its improved performance.

In the Bootstrapping a Quarkus application section of Chapter 1, Bootstrapping the Project, we initialized the project and added RESTEasy Reactive to the list of dependencies. This dependency is what will allow us to implement the reactive HTTP endpoints. As we learned, RESTEasy provides an implementation of JAX-RS based on Vert.x. One of the major advantages of RESTEasy Reactive compared to the regular RESTEasy alternatives is that it allows us to implement both blocking and non-blocking endpoints.

Although we already have the RESTEasy dependency, we’ll need additional dependencies to be able to serialize our database entities...