Spring Boot Fundamentals: Build Your First REST API

Ready to build the powerful back-end services that power modern web applications? This course provides a clear, text-based path to creating your first REST API using the popular Spring Boot framework, focusing on practical skills and current best practices. You will go from understanding the core principles of web services to confidently building your own functional and robust APIs. Through clear explanations and hands-on exercises, you'll learn to handle data, manage errors, and prepare your application for real-world scenarios. What you'll learn: - Understand the fundamental concepts of RESTful architecture and the Spring Boot framework. - Build functional CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs using controllers, services, and repositories. - Connect your application to a database and manage data persistence with Spring Data JPA. - Implement robust data validation and centralized exception handling for reliable services. - Write effective unit and integration tests for your API endpoints to ensure code quality. - Learn the basics of securing your web services with Spring Security. - Practice containerizing your Spring Boot application using Docker for consistent environments. The course starts with essential terminology and project setup, then progresses through building API endpoints, integrating a database, and finally covers testing and deployment fundamentals. Each concept is introduced in a logical order to build your knowledge step by step. This course is designed for beginners with some prior Java programming experience. No previous knowledge of Spring or web service development is required. Start learning to build professional back-end services today.