API First Engineering with Spring Boot

About API First Engineering with Spring Boot

Take a comprehensive dive into the world of API First development using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3. This extensive course covers the latest practices and tools for designing, building, and testing robust APIs following industry best practices. You'll begin by understanding the foundational concepts of API-first development and its benefits for organizations. The course then guides you through the practical implementation of an API using OpenAPI specifications, domain-driven design principles, and code generation from OpenAPI specifications. Throughout the course, you'll explore a wide range of topics, including:

Defining APIs using the OpenAPI specification and tools like Redocly

Using Redocly to establish CI/CD builds for your OpenAPI Specification and Redoc API Documentation

Applying domain-driven design principles for effective API design

Generating code from OpenAPI specifications using Maven with OpenAPI Code Generator

Developing Spring Boot and SpringMVC to implementing API endpoints

Testing APIs with Spring MockMVC and incorporate request validation to your OpenAPI Specification

Implementing create, update, patch, and delete operations for APIs

Object-relational mapping with JPA, Hibernate

Using MapStruct for efficient object mapping and type transformation

Enforcing data validation and constraints with JPA and Java Bean Validation

Handling standardized problems and errors with libraries like Zalando Problem

Generation of Spring Boot API clients and using clients with integration testing Throughout the course, you'll work on a real-world e-commerce API project, applying the concepts and best practices learned in each section. By the end of this course, you'll have a deep understanding of API-first development using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 with OpenAPI, enabling you to design, build, and test robust APIs that adhere to industry standards. This course is a master course in developing high quality world class API products for your customers. Enroll now and elevate your skills in API development with Spring!