You're reading from Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 Design scalable, viable, and reactive APIs with REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613276

Length 494 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

GraphQL

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Sharma

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – RESTful Web Services

2. Chapter 1: RESTful Web Service Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Spring Concepts and REST APIs

4. Chapter 3: API Specifications and Implementation

5. Chapter 4: Writing Business Logic for APIs

6. Chapter 5: Asynchronous API Design

7. Part 2 – Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment

8. Chapter 6: Securing REST Endpoints Using Authorization and Authentication

9. Chapter 7: Designing a User Interface

10. Chapter 8: Testing APIs

11. Chapter 9: Deployment of Web Services

12. Part 3 – gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring

13. Chapter 10: Getting Started with gRPC

14. Chapter 11: gRPC API Development and Testing

15. Chapter 12: Adding Logging and Tracing to Services

16. Part 4 – GraphQL

17. Chapter 13: Getting Started with GraphQL

18. Chapter 14: GraphQL API Development and Testing

19. Index

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