Backend Web Development with SpringBoot

About Course

This comprehensive course is designed to take you from basic familiarity with Java to building, testing, and deploying robust Spring Boot–based backend web applications. Through a blend of theory, hands-on coding labs, and a capstone project, you’ll gain practical skills in RESTful API design, data persistence, security, testing, and cloud deployment.

Prerequisites

Solid understanding of core Java (OOP, collections, exception handling)
Familiarity with Maven or Gradle build tools
Basic SQL knowledge
A Java IDE installed (IntelliJ IDEA Community (recommended), Eclipse, or VS Code)

Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Set up and configure Spring Boot projects
Design and implement RESTful APIs
Persist data using Spring Data JPA and relational databases
Secure your application with Spring Security (JWT, OAuth2)
Write unit and integration tests with JUnit and Mockito
Containerize and deploy applications (Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud PaaS)
Monitor and maintain production applications

Course Content

Module 0: Getting Started
Before diving into Backend Web development with Spring boot, this module walks you through everything you need to hit the ground running—setting up your tools, understanding the course layout, and establishing a smooth workflow for labs and collaboration.

0.1 Course Structure
0.2 Environment Setup
0.3 Create Your GitHub Repository
0.4 Clone Locally & Add a .gitignore
0.5 Establish Folder Structure
0.6 Branching & Lab Workflow
0.7 Populate Your Root README
0.8 Tips & Best Practices
Lab: First Commit (optional)

Module 1: Spring Boot Fundamentals (Week 1)

Module 2: RESTful API Development (Weeks 2–3)

Module 3: Data Persistence with Spring Data JPA (Week 4)

Module 4: Application Security (Week 5)

Module 5: Testing Strategies (Week 6)

Module 6: Deployment & DevOps (Week 7)

Module 7: Observability & Advanced Topics (Week 8)

Capstone Project

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Prerequisites

Objectives

Course Content

Module 0: Getting Started Before diving into Backend Web development with Spring boot, this module walks you through everything you need to hit the ground running—setting up your tools, understanding the course layout, and establishing a smooth workflow for labs and collaboration.

0.1 Course Structure

0.2 Environment Setup

0.3 Create Your GitHub Repository

0.4 Clone Locally & Add a .gitignore

0.5 Establish Folder Structure

0.6 Branching & Lab Workflow

0.7 Populate Your Root README

0.8 Tips & Best Practices

Lab: First Commit (optional)

Module 1: Spring Boot Fundamentals (Week 1)

What is Spring Boot? Starters, Auto-configuration

Project setup with Spring Initializr, Maven vs. Gradle

Application properties and profiles

Embedded servers (Tomcat, Jetty)

Lab: Hello Spring Boot

Module 2: RESTful API Development (Weeks 2–3)

Designing resource-based URIs

HTTP methods, status codes, error handling

DTOs, validation (Hibernate Validator)

Versioning strategies

Lab: Book CRUD Starter

Lab: Versioning & Advanced REST

Module 3: Data Persistence with Spring Data JPA (Week 4)

JPA vs. Hibernate fundamentals

Spring Data repositories (CrudRepository, JpaRepository)

Entity relationships (One-to-Many, Many-to-Many)

Transaction management

Lab: Blog Domain with JPA

Module 4: Application Security (Week 5)

Introduction to Spring Security

Securing endpoints with annotations (@EnableWebSecurity, @PreAuthorize)

JWT authentication flow

OAuth2 basics (authorization code flow)

Lab: JWT-Secured Blog

Module 5: Testing Strategies (Week 6)

Unit testing services and controllers with JUnit 5

Mocking dependencies with Mockito

Integration tests with Spring Boot Test

Test slicing (@WebMvcTest, @DataJpaTest)

Lab: Testing Your Services

Module 6: Deployment & DevOps (Week 7)

Building Docker images for Spring Boot

Docker Compose for multi-container apps (app + database)

Introduction to Kubernetes deployment (optional)

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

Lab: Docker & CI

Module 7: Observability & Advanced Topics (Week 8)

Spring Boot Actuator (metrics, health checks)

Centralized logging (ELK / EFK stack)

Caching with Spring Cache (Redis integration)

Asynchronous processing (Spring @Async, messaging with RabbitMQ)

Lab: Observability & Caching

Capstone Project

Build & Deploy a Task Tracker API

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Module 0: Getting Started
Before diving into Backend Web development with Spring boot, this module walks you through everything you need to hit the ground running—setting up your tools, understanding the course layout, and establishing a smooth workflow for labs and collaboration.