Reactive Spring

Better read the book "Unraveling Project Reactor" by Esteban Herrera to focus on just learning reactive programming with Project Reactor before reading this book.This book spends just 2 chapters on Reactor concepts and then jumps to show the reactive support in Spring.The author introduces reactive configuration beans and libraries like Resilience4j as if the reader can make sense of them immediately without going into much detail. I found it difficult to follow such code examples without knowing what each line of code does.

There are a few different approaches a programming book can take. One approach is more textual explaining the concepts with small little snippets of code, another is to fill the book with so much code samples that you can see how everything works in the real world and of course a nice mix of both.In Josh Long's book Reactive Spring, he takes the approach of presenting every piece of real world sample code he can provide. It is really great stuff from a Spring FLUX/MVC approach that many are already familiar with to a configuration routing to handlers approach which matches approaches other projects take. Even command line apps that act as servers handling requests and responses. Since there are so many ways you can use Spring Reactive in your projects, you need a book like this that can show you how to use it correctly in your project.Josh has a great way to really describe the code and what is going on, so that you don't have to rack your brain deciphering it. The code is very clean. He explains all the concepts well to also go along with the code. It also comes with Josh's great sense of humor, so much his voice that I literally heard his voice in my head reading the book to me as I read along.If you really want to learn everything about Spring Reactive projects, then this is the book you should get.

This book has given me all the info I need to get started with reactive Spring. Josh does a great job at explaining the core concepts and making the examples easy to follow and try out.

Overall I think the book is probably one of the best you can get today. The book quickly takes you through pieces to help you get up to speed with spring boot, where it’s been, what you can do today and where it’s going . It was written so that you have a fairly decent background and what’s being accomplished . My biggest complaint is the lacking of the glossary . This would help people who have already started playing with reactive spring a whole lot.

- of the hundreds of books I own, this one has the weird size and the worst print quality. When I open the book I thought it should be illegal to sell something of this quality. I feel scammed.- now the content, where is the error handling when you handle reactive stream? Is it because there should be no issue?

This book may cause eye strain. Print quality is very poor