Summary

In this chapter, we created our first microservice. This was our first practical chapter about creating microservices. For this, having a clear understanding of your requirements is important. We provided simple requirements to make our first microservice more understandable and easy to follow. There, we learned how to set up our project. We talked about the tools we need to develop our first microservice; before every microservice development process can be undertaken, we need to define which tools and technologies we plan to use. We also created our internal structure using MVC and N-layered architecture. These are the most popular choices, so using them for your first development project is a great chance for you to learn popular techniques. The practical aspect of this chapter covered creating models, business logic, and controllers. There, we learned about the basics of validation using the JOI package. The application requires a separate file to store configuration, hence...