Pro Spring MVC with WebFlux: Web Development in Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2

© Marten Deinum and Iuliana Cosmina 2021

M. Deinum, I. CosminaPro Spring MVC with WebFluxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5666-4_10

10. Building Reactive Applications with Spring WebFlux

Marten Deinum¹   and Iuliana Cosmina²

(1)

MEPPEL, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)

EDINBURGH, UK

 

In the previous chapter, functional reactive programming was introduced out of necessity. Spring WebFlux is a functional reactive framework for writing Spring reactive applications, and the code written for the applications in this chapter is functional and uses Reactive Streams.

Spring WebFlux is a good fit for building applications that require easy streaming. The examples introduced in the previous chapter sent data to the client over an HTTP connection using Reactive Streams. ...