Building Real-Time Web Apps with Spring Boot and WebSockets

Learn how to build a real-time web app with the Spring Framework and the WebSocket API. Explore design elements and how to develop and test server-side and client-side components.

Introduction

• Building an easy real-time app for Java developers
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Getting Started with Real-Time Apps

• Why learn to create a real-time app?
• WebSockets 101
• Preparing a sample chat app

2. Develop the WebSocket Server

• Create message model objects
• Create message controllers
• Extending the controller for interaction updates
• Create the message broker
• Test the message broker
• Handling errors

3. Develop the Browser Client

• The UI/UX overview
• Create JavaScript client code
• Sending messages to the server
• Broadcasting updates from the server

4. Testing the WebSocket Client

• Showing error handler messages
• SockJS tips and tricks
• Test and monitor tools

Conclusion

• Next steps