The reader will be familiar with the basics of Spring Boot. This section focuses on the knowledge and skills required to use databases and create RESTful web services.

This section covers the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Backend
• Chapter 2, Dependency Injection
• Chapter 3, Using JPA to Create and Access a Database
• Chapter 4, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot
• Chapter 5, Securing and Testing Your Backend