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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

Creating the entity classes

An entity class is a simple Java class that is annotated with JPA's @Entity annotation. Entity classes use the standard JavaBean naming convention and have proper getter and setter methods. The class fields have private visibility.

JPA creates a database table called by the name of the class when the application is initialized. If you want to use some other name for the database table, you can use the @Table annotation in your entity class.

At the beginning of this chapter, we will use the H2 database (https://www.h2database.com/), which is embedded in our in-memory database. To be able to use JPA and the H2 database, we have to add the following dependencies to the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>...
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