Let's Build an API Together - Part 28

Last Update: 05.02.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Our API works now. We can register a new user, log in via the API, authenticate via token in a header and can work with the kanban board. So, we are done for now.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 27

Last Update: 02.02.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Now that we can register a new user and login, it is time for assigning boards to the logged in user.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 26

Last Update: 01.02.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

We will be using Spring Session with a JDBC storage and use the same database as for the rest of the application.


Microservices Are NOT The Solution To Your Problems

Last Update: 01.02.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning

Microservices are not the holy grail of software development as many devs and managers see them. They don’t solve all your problems at once, not even the tech ones. Yet, they follow a fad blindly again. Yesterday it was Agile and SOA, today it’s still microservices and cloud. Instead of solutions, many find themselves facing new problems; worse problems.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 25

Last Update: 31.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

The API will expose endpoints for login and register new users.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 24

Last Update: 30.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Now, we are ready to set up the user and configure Spring Security to protect our API.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 23

Last Update: 29.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Now we are ready to add users. We can do it two ways.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 22

Last Update: 26.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

In this episode, we are adjusting the model.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 21

Last Update: 25.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Yesterday we updated the endpoints in the API and today I was going to implement it in RAML and let the generator we use to create the Spring MVC code. However, I had another problem with the generator again as it wasn’t generating the createTask method anymore because I put the boardId in the path. Besides that, the code started to get messy with no added benefit anymore.


Let's Build an API Together - Part 20

Last Update: 24.01.2018. By Jens in API Series | APIs | Newsletter

Before we implement any security, let’s step back and add multiple kanban boards for a user.