Generating a Spring Boot project can be made through various means, each having its own use case depending on your situation. You can use the Spring Initializr web UI which is beginner-friendly and perfect to get an overview of what is available. You can also generate your project inside your…

Role-based access control is a must-have for any application dealing with users who can access resources depending on their organization’s role. In a previous article, we have learned how to secure our Spring Boot REST API with Keycloak by using the OpenID Connect authentication protocol. In this article, we are…

Security is often overlooked and is seen as a burden that goes against development velocity. But in today’s age, the more secure layers there are, the safer it is. That is what Security in Depth is, and one part is to secure our REST API. In this blog post, we…

In a previous article, we learned how to add full-text-search to a Spring Boot Rest API using Hibernate Search. In this article, we are going to build on that, and learn how to add paginated search to our existing REST API. Project setup You can check out the previous blog post to…

And how to become one — Being a software engineer in 2022 is demanding. On one side, you have to know more and more technology to be a so-called full-stack developer and be knowledgeable both on front-end and backend. You also need to have some knowledge of the DevOps practice and tools to know how your…

Search is one of the pillars of the web, and full-text search is one of the mandatory features that every website needs. But implementing such a feature is complex, and lots of skilled engineers have already thought hard about this topic. …

In a previous blog post, we learned how to build an API with pagination. In this blog post, we are focusing on how to consume such an API by building a paginated list using React, the most popular JavaScript frontend framework at the moment. Project setup To generate the project, we use…

Containers have become very popular during the last few years thanks to the rise of Docker. The most common use case is to run an application in isolation, be it in a development environment or a production environment. But it can also be used for more specific use cases. In…

Pagination is an important feature for REST API, and is used for many use cases where we want to fetch only a small part of an entire dataset. It might be for performance reasons, and fetch only the data needed at that time. …