Back-end Engineering

4 courses

Spring Boot REST API with Kotlin & Gradle

This course path teaches you to build robust REST APIs with Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Gradle. It covers core concepts like Spring Beans, dependency injection, and RESTful API development, along with request validation, exception handling, and data persistence using Spring Data JPA.

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This learning path includes:

4 courses with bite-sized lessons and practices

20 engaging lessons in text and video formats

74 hands-on practices

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Verified skills you'll gain

DEVELOPING

Server-Side Programming

INTERMEDIATE

Data Management and Database Querying

INTERMEDIATE

API Integration, Design, & Development

Tools you'll use

Gradle

Kotlin

Spring Boot

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6 lessons

19 practices

Introduction to Spring Boot and Spring Core with Kotlin

This chapter introduces you to the core concepts of Spring, including the project structure, Spring Beans, dependency injection, and bean scopes. You will learn how to create and manage beans, understand the different injection methods, and explore the lifecycle of beans in a Spring Boot application.

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5 lessons

21 practices

Building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot

This chapter focuses on building RESTful APIs using Spring Boot. You will learn how to create basic REST controllers, return JSON responses, handle path variables and query parameters, and implement CRUD operations for your application.

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4 lessons

15 practices

Advanced RESTful Techniques

In this chapter, you will learn advanced techniques for building RESTful APIs, including request validation, exception handling, working with complex request bodies, and customizing response headers. These techniques will help you create more robust and user-friendly APIs.

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5 lessons

19 practices

Persisting Data with Spring Data JPA

This chapter helps you understand how to persist data using Spring Data JPA. You will learn the basics of Spring Data JPA, how to work with custom repositories, query data using various methods, manage entity relationships, and implement pagination and sorting in your application.

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