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Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816786
Pages 378 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Juha Hinkula Juha Hinkula
Profile icon Juha Hinkula

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Dependency Injection 4. Chapter 3: Using JPA to Create and Access a Database 5. Chapter 4: Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot 6. Chapter 5: Securing and Testing Your Backend 7. Part 2: Frontend Programming with React
8. Chapter 6: Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend 9. Chapter 7: Getting Started with React 10. Chapter 8: Consuming the REST API with React 11. Chapter 9: Useful Third-Party Components for React 12. Part 3: Full Stack Development
13. Chapter 10: Setting up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service 14. Chapter 11: Adding CRUD Functionalities 15. Chapter 12: Styling the Frontend with React MUI 16. Chapter 13: Testing Your Frontend 17. Chapter 14: Securing Your Application 18. Chapter 15: Deploying Your Application 19. Chapter 16: Best Practices 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the fetch API

With the fetch API, you can make web requests. The idea of the fetch API is similar to the traditional XMLHttpRequest, but the fetch API also supports promises, which makes it more straightforward to use. You don't have to install any libraries if you are using fetch.

The fetch API provides a fetch() method that has one mandatory argument: the path of the resource you are calling. In the case of a web request, it will be the URL of the service. For a simple GET method call, which returns a JSON response, the syntax is as follows. The fetch() method returns a promise that contains the response. You can use the json() method to parse the JSON body from the response:

fetch('http://someapi.com')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data));
.catch(error => console.error(error))

To use another HTTP method, such as POST, you must define it in the second argument of the fetch() method. The second argument is an object...

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