Mastering Java Full Stack Development

From Spring Boot to ReactJS

Usharani Bhimavarapu

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443516849
• Subtopic: Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Mastering Java Full Stack Development: From Spring Boot to ReactJS is an essential handbook for building robust, scalable, and future-ready enterprise applications using today's most in-demand technologies. Written for full-stack developers, software engineers stepping into enterprise systems, as well as students preparing for real-world architecture challenges, this comprehensive guide walks readers through every layer of modern application design—from Spring Boot and Hibernate to Node. js and ReactJS, and from secure RESTful application programming interfaces to microservices and cloud-native deployment. Structured for progressive learning, this book blends theory with hands-on examples to help readers build applications that are not just functional, but maintainable, secure, and scalable. Each chapter provides the why behind the how—enabling readers to make informed technical decisions grounded in industry best practices. This book offers a unified, full-stack view of enterprise application development, integrating back-end, front-end, database, and cloud layers. It provides an integrated, end-to-end guide that shows how Spring, Hibernate, React, and Microservices work together in a cohesive architecture. It also addresses the growing interest and practical implementation challenges associated with applying the most current development methodologies to Java software engineering environments, offering a deep dive into foundational concepts, the challenges faced in real-world applications, and potential future developments. Java remains an integral programming language in modern web-based software development, which enables smoother collaboration, faster deployment, and improved quality of software products. This book is written for full-stack developers and Java back-end developers who want to expand into front-end technologies, as well as front-end developers looking to master enterprise-level back-end development. - • Presents integrated full-stack development from database to user interface and microservices, with practical examples and scenarios that resonate with real-world applications across back end, front end, and deployment, solved through an end-to-end full-stack approach• Includes detailed coverage of core technologies and current best practices such as Spring Boot, React, and Microservices• Provides a strong security and deployment focus, including JSON Web Tokens, Spring Security, and continuous integration and deployment practices• Professional architecture guidance helps readers with real-world decisions on scaling, testing, and modular design

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• 1 Introduction to enterprise application development
• 2 Setting up the development environment
• 3 Introduction to Spring Framework
• 4 Understanding Hibernate Object-Relational Mapping
• 5 Building a simple Create, Read, Update, and Delete application with Spring Boot and Hibernate
• 6 Advanced Hibernate: inheritance, relationships, and performance tuning
• 7 Spring Model-View-Controller and building web applications
• 8 Representational State Transfer web services with Spring Boot
• 9 Securing the application: Spring Security and JSON Web Tokens
• 10 Pagination, sorting, and filtering in Spring Model-View-Controller
• 11 Integrating microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• 12 Handling communication between microservices
• 13 Testing and deploying Spring Boot applications
• Chapter 14 Monitoring and scaling Spring Boot applications
• 15 Node.js
• 16 React.js
• Index