Part 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot

Chapter 1, Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend, explains how to install the software needed in this book for backend development and how to create your first Spring Boot application.

Chapter 2, Understanding Dependency Injection, explains the basics of dependency injection and how it is achieved in Spring Boot.

Chapter 3, Using JPA to Create and Access a Database, introduces JPA and explains how to create and access databases with Spring Boot.

Chapter 4, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot, explains how to create RESTful web services using Spring Data REST.

Chapter 5, Securing Your Backend, explains how to secure your backend using Spring Security and JWTs.

Chapter 6, Testing Your Backend, covers testing in Spring Boot. We will create a few unit and integration tests for our backend and learn about test-driven development.

Part 2: Frontend Programming with React

Chapter 7, Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend, explains how to install the software needed in this book for frontend development.

Chapter 8, Getting Started with React, introduces the basics of the React library.

Chapter 9, Introduction to TypeScript, covers the basics of TypeScript and how to use it to create React apps.

Chapter 10, Consuming the REST API with React, shows how to use REST APIs with React using the Fetch API.

Chapter 11, Useful Third-Party Components for React, demonstrates some useful components that we’ll use in our frontend development.

Part 3: Full Stack Development

Chapter 12, Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service, explains how to set up the React app and Spring Boot backend for frontend development.

Chapter 13, Adding CRUD Functionalities, shows how to implement CRUD functionalities to the React frontend.

Chapter 14, Styling the Frontend with MUI, shows how to polish the user interface using the React MUI component library.

Chapter 15, Testing Your Frontend, explains the basics of React frontend testing.

Chapter 16, Securing Your Application, explains how to secure the frontend using JWTs.

Chapter 17, Deploying Your Application, demonstrates how to deploy an application with AWS and Netlify, and how to use Docker containers.