Pro Spring Boot 2: An Authoritative Guide to Building Microservices, Web and Enterprise Applications, and Best Practices

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Felipe GutierrezPro Spring Boot 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3676-5_6

6. WebFlux and Reactive Data with Spring Boot

Felipe Gutierrez¹ 

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Albuquerque, NM, USA

 

In this chapter, I show you the newest addition to Spring Framework 5 and how to use it with Spring Boot. The new reactive stack built for web applications is Spring WebFlux, which was added in the 5.0 version of the Spring Framework. It is a fully non-blocking framework that relies on Project Reactor, which supports reactive streams back pressure and runs on servers like Netty and Undertow, and Servlet 3.1+ containers.

Before I show you how to use WebFlux with Spring Boot, let’s learn about reactive systems and how Project Reactor ( https://projectreactor.io/ ...