Building Spring Boot REST API

Building Spring Boot REST API

What you'll learn:

• Understanding of Spring Boot
• Benefits of using Spring Boot
• Features of Spring Boot
• Understand SpringBootApplication Annotation
• Auto Configuration
• Conditional Annotations
• Building Custom AutoConfiguration
• Spring Boot Starters
• Spring Boot Embedded Servers
• Spring Boot Actuator
• Springfox Swagger2
• Spring Data JPA Basics
• H2 Database Basics
• How to use Spring Initializr
• Understanding of REST
• Understanding of REST Principles
• REST verbs and meaning of IDEMPOTENT
• Designing REST resource URIs
• Understanding @RestController
• Finally How to Build Spring Boot Rest API

In this course, we will build a simple Spring Boot RESTAPI.

We will use the below technology stack to build a simple Spring Boot RESTAPI.

• Spring Boot

• Spring Boot Starter Web

• Spring Boot Starter Data JPA

• Spring Boot Actuator

• H2 Database

• Springfox Swagger 2

• Java 11

Course Objectives

• Understanding Spring Boot - When was Spring Boot created and What is it?

• Benefits of using Spring Boot - Why to use Spring Boot?

• Very Important Features of Spring Boot

• SpringBootApplication Annotation - What are the benefits of using @SpringBootApplication.

• Auto Configuration - What is Auto Configuration and How we can enable it ? How to create Custom Auto Configuration ?

• Spring Boot Starters - What are the benefits of using Starters? How to add these starters in the Application?

• Embedded Servers - Know about different Embedded Servers and how to override the default port and also change the Server.

• Spring Boot Actuator - What is the use of Spring Boot Actuator? What are the different actuator endpoints ?

• What is REST? Understand the actual meaning of REST(Representation State Transfer)

• REST Principles - Understand various REST Principles in Depth

• REST Verbs and Idempotent Verbs

• Designing resource URIs in REST API

• Build a Simple Spring Boot REST API

• Explore H2 Console

• Explore Actuator Endpoints

• Use Swagger UI to hit all the exposed endpoints of the REST API and test different scenarios.