Building Spring Boot REST API

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

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

• 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.