Learning Spring Boot 2.0(Second Edition)
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Reactive Web with Spring Boot

The more and more I use #SpringBoot the more I like it.
Derek Stainer @dstainer

In the previous chapter, we saw how quickly an application can be created with just a few lines of code. In this chapter, we are going to embark upon a journey. We will build a social media application where users can upload pictures and write comments.

In this chapter, we will build the web layer for our social media application doing the following:

  • Creating a reactive web application with Spring Initializr
  • Learning the tenets of reactive programming
  • Introducing Reactor types
  • Switching from Apache Tomcat to Embedded Netty
  • Comparing reactive Spring WebFlux against classic Spring MVC
  • Showing some Mono/Flux-based endpoints
  • Creating a reactive ImageService
  • Creating a reactive file controller
  • Showing how to interact with a Thymeleaf template
  • Illustrating how going from async to sync can be easy, but the opposite is not