Spring Boot REST API Course

Goals

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

• Benefits of using Spring Boot - Why 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 can we enable it? How to create a Custom Auto Configuration?

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

Prerequisites

• Core Java.

• Spring Framework Basics.