How to Build a Java Spring Boot Web Application from Scratch

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Join the Discord Server

Lecture 2: Introduction to Full-Stack Java Development

Lecture 3: What is an API?

Lecture 4: NASA Mars Rover API

Lecture 5: Introduction to Postman

Chapter 2: Creating a RESTful Web App

Lecture 1: Using Spring Tool Suite IDE to Create Spring Boot Application

Lecture 2: Configuring our MySQL Database

Lecture 3: Starting to use Spring MVC

Lecture 4: Deep Dive on Spring Models

Lecture 5: Using RestTemplate and Junit

Lecture 6: Mapping JSON Response to Java Objects

Lecture 7: Debugging JSON Response Mapping Issue

Chapter 3: Working with the Front End

Lecture 1: Displaying Mars Rover Photos

Lecture 2: Bootstrap Crash Course

Lecture 3: Thymeleaf forEach Magic

Lecture 4: Adding Dynamic Elements to our View

Lecture 5: Using JS to Add Events to Buttons

Lecture 6: POSTing Data via HTML Form to Java

Lecture 7: GETing Data via HTML Forms

Lecture 8: Highlighting Buttons with JavaScript

Lecture 9: Adding Mars Sol Filter

Lecture 10: Researching Mars Cameras API

Lecture 11: Data Binding with Thymeleaf

Lecture 12: Adding Mars Cameras to the View

Lecture 13: Mobile Friendly UIs with Bootstrap

Chapter 4: Refactoring and Building on Our Code

Lecture 1: Improving Mars API Calls with Cameras

Lecture 2: Refactoring our Ugly Code

Lecture 3: Disabling Non-Valid Cameras in View

Lecture 4: Debugging Disabling of Checkboxes

Chapter 5: Adding a Database to the Project

Lecture 1: Adding Remember Preferences Checkbox

Lecture 2: Playing with Local Storage

Lecture 3: Using a Form POST

Lecture 4: Creating a DB Entity

Lecture 5: Creating a Repository

Lecture 6: Improving our DB Design

Lecture 7: Bug Fixes Galore

Lecture 8: Final Bug Fixes and Next Steps