Creating a Spring Boot REST API with iPad Pro and Raspberry Pi 4 Use Code-Server for Spring Boot and React JS

Hello, everyone and welcome to creating a Spring Boot REST API using iPad Pro and Raspberry Pi 4. This is only the first part of a three-part tutorial. In the next tutorial, we will secure the API using Spring Security. And in the third tutorial, we will use ReactJS to create a frontend for our API. Also at the end of this video, I will show you the final product, including the frontend application.

I’m so excited to share this course with you, and I hope you will not only learn but also have a lot of fun going through the segments of this course. The purpose of this tutorial is to help you build a complex and practical web application anywhere with a minimalistic setup. Not only you will get to experience technologies used by famous enterprise web applications, you will also be able to code this using only your iPad and a Raspberry Pi.

The iPad Pro is a very powerful machine. And unfortunately, there are no IDs that you can use to build any type of application in any language you choose. But with the help of a Raspberry Pi and a cable, we are able to use this powerful machine to code in any language we choose to.

First we will understand how to configure Code Server so that we can code an Enterprise Java Web Application. We will create an architecture so that we can code and use our application, even if we are on the go and there is no internet connection. We will also build a REST API using Java and Spring Boot. And in the next two tutorials, we will secure it and we will create a React web app as a client to call our API.

And now a short introduction about myself. I am a full stack software engineer, and I’m very passionate about software development and tech in general. I have more than 15 years experience in software development. Since I started working, I started with enterprise complex applications using MVC pattern. And at that time when I started coding, Struts was the framework to use.

For more than 10 years, I have experience in leading teams of software developers. And my favorite part about this is knowledge sharing and growing together as a team. One of my passions is to teach software development, as not only it helps me learn better, but it brings me a lot of happiness knowing I can help others.

I started doing this on a blog, but I find it more efficient to do it via YouTube. So recently at the beginning of this year, I created my own YouTube channel and it seems to grow pretty fast. You can find the link here in this presentation.

Some useful URLs before you begin the course. The most important URL for this course is the GitHub account. I think it will be useful to follow the code here as you follow the videos and the explanations. Sometimes the text can be a bit too small on the screen as I code on the iPad, so it will help to follow the code on GitHub.

The next URL is where you find the Spring Boot documentation and you can go deeper in topics you find interesting. The main purpose of this video is to show you how to build a complex web app on the iPad using Raspberry Pi, so I didn’t go super deep in Spring Boot-related topics.

Now let’s have a look at the final product, the application that we will actually build during our course. The project that we will build is a personal finance manager. We will create the possibility to have multiple users using it. So we will create an authentication and login mechanism, and I will show you how we will do that.

So let’s just create some dummy data here, of course. So we’ll have the possibility to register any user. Then with the new user we just created, we’ll have the possibility to login.

We will have a dashboard in which we can upload a CSV file containing our monthly financial overview. Once the transactions are uploaded, we can categorize and save them. As you can see here, I can put here a category and save them, of course.

We will also have a section where you can overview your expenses in detail, as you can see here, and the total for each category that we have created. For now, we have one category and the total for this category. We will be able to filter our expenses or transactions. We will be able to search through them as well, delete them. And eventually, we are also able to log out and create another user or login with another user.

I hope that this introduction got you super excited because I know I am. So let’s start setting up our Code Server so that we can start coding our application. I will see you in the next video.