Full-Stack React with Spring Boot: Foundations

Pearson’s foundations unit focuses on the Spring side of a React and Spring Boot pathway. Lessons cover project setup with the CLI and IntelliJ, console and web applications, and the role of beans and components. Configuration classes, autowiring and application contexts explain how a Spring application is assembled before later units connect a richer frontend.

What you will learn

• Configure a Spring Boot development project
• Work with components, beans and dependency injection
• Introduce REST services and application configuration

Who this suits

The provider lists an Intermediate level. Prior Java programming and basic HTTP knowledge are useful preparation, even though no detailed prerequisite is published in the reviewed metadata. This is not a from-zero Java or React course.

Before you enroll

The listed workload is about five and a half hours, including assessment. This unit belongs to a larger specialization; the individual course is a focused foundation and does not include the whole program. Framework and IDE versions change, so compare setup instructions with current documentation when commands differ. Budget separate practice time to explain configuration choices rather than relying on a successfully copied example as proof of understanding.

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Put it into practice

Create a minimal Spring Boot service with a component supplied through dependency injection. Add a simple endpoint, change one setting through configuration, and document how the application context supplies the dependency used by your controller.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on 12 October 2026. It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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