So you have mastered Spring Boot and started toying around with React. Now you want React to talk to your Boot app as your back-end API. Thatโs fabulous. You probably already know how to do this, but there is a kicker. You want to package them and start both of them as just one project.
Well, youโre in luck! This blog is going to take a couple of simple projects and combine them into one project. Lace up your boots and get ready to React!
While working on a recent project at a client, we had the opportunity to refactor some data extracts that were using a commercial Excel writing library, which we then converted to using the Apache POI Library for Excel. These data extracts were reports that included some calculated values, and depending on the client, were required to be password protected. When completed, the reports would be emailed to the recipients configured for each client.
In this post, we discuss the challenge of delivering protected Microsoft documents via email. We introduce a Java code solution for emailing password-protected Excel files when using the Apache POI Library.
Some of the required calculations we chose to implement using Excel formulas. Implementing formulas wasn’t a hard task and worked for what was needed.
Problem
I was pushing a new Docker image tag for each application code commit, and the admins of the private registry were getting annoyed at how much space I was using.
Solution Summary
Yes, I know there are strategies to clean up old tags but I first wanted to reduce the impact of the tags I was pushing. With the right layering strategy, I knew I could reduce the net registry size increase of consecutive tag pushes.
I wanted to only push what had actually changed in the application. In addition to reducing the impact on the registry, having smaller tag deltas could possibly speed up rolling deployments since nodes could potentially have less to download.
Spring Boot is a framework designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. The framework takes an opinionated approach to configuration, freeing developers from the need to define a boilerplate configuration. MongoDB is a simpleย set up and easy to use document database. A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data.
In this post, I will demonstrate the process of creating a RESTful web application with Spring Boot and MongoDB.
I am assisting a client that is migrating from a monolithic legacy application to a modern Microservice stack with Spring REST. We are helping to implement Swagger UI to provide both a front-end API UI, as well as to provide a level of documentation at the same time. This implementation has simultaneously met our project requirements, as well as garnering some positive feedback from our client!
Swagger UI is one of the most popular tools to visually render beautiful, interactive API documentation. In this blog, Iโll use a REST API application to demonstrate some usage of Swagger UI. The source project is available at https://github.com/bingliu2016/spring-boot-rest-swagger2.