Building Real-Time Web Apps with Spring Boot and WebSockets

1h 2mBeginner2018-10-08

Authors

Shonna Smith

Entrepreneur, Agile Coach, Enterprise Software Developer

Course details

Nearly all of today's most popular chat apps and collaboration platforms offer immediate feedback, allowing users to exchange instant messages and see when their peers are typing responses. If you're looking to get up to speed on real-time app development for work—or you just want to diversify your development repertoire—then this course can help. Join Shonna Smith as she shows how to build upon your existing enterprise Java development skill set to develop a real-time web app with the Spring framework and WebSocket API. As she walks through how to build a chat app, Shonna goes over the design elements specific to real-time web apps, as well as how to develop and test the server-side and client-side components.

Learning objectives
Why learn to create a real-time app?
Developing a WebSocket server
Creating message model objects and message controllers
Handling errors
Developing the browser client
Broadcasting updates from the server
Testing the WebSocket client

Skills covered

Spring FrameworkSpring BootSpringBack-End Web DevelopmentWeb Development ToolsFull-Stack Web DevelopmentProjectWeb DevelopmentOpen Source

Concepts

Introduction

Building an easy real-time app for Java developers
What you should know
Exercise files

Getting Started with Real-Time Apps

Why learn to create a real-time app
WebSockets 101
Preparing a sample chat app

Develop the WebSocket Server

Create message model objects
Create message controllers
Extending the controller for interaction updates
Create the message broker
Test the message broker
Handling errors

Develop the Browser Client

The UI UX overview
Create JavaScript client code
Sending messages to the server
Broadcasting updates from the server

Testing the WebSocket Client

Showing error handler messages
SockJS tips and tricks
Test and monitor tools

Conclusion

Next steps