Is REST with Spring Boot Course Worth it? Baeldung Review

Eugen Paraschive have launched a new version of REST with Spring Boot course and early bird discount is closing soon

credit — Eugen

Hello guys, I have an excellent news to share with you today. My friend and fellow blogger Eugen Paraschive of Baeldung have launched new version of his best selling REST With Spring course. In fact, its a new course, REST With Spring Boot 3 which uses latest version of Spring Boot and Spring, I mean Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6.

The current pricing of REST with Spring Boot officially goes up at the end of this week.

Here’s exactly how the pricing will change:
1. The Master Class — 107$ goes up to 157$

2. The Certification Class — 167$ goes up to 217$

If you’re planning to join the program and want to benefit from the last few days of the current pricing, make sure you do that soon.

Here is the link to join the masterclass — https://www.baeldung.com/courses/rest-with-spring-boot-course

And, if you want to join certification class — https://www.baeldung.com/courses/rest-with-spring-boot-course?#certification-class

How is REST with Spring Boot Course? Is it worth it?

The new REST with Spring Boot is not meant to be a huge departure from the old course. His plan was was to evolve the course natively around Spring Boot 3 and keep the structure as is but later he found to create a brand new course on topic.

Ultimately, the finished material is both an evolution beyond the classic lessons in REST With Spring, but also so much more, beyond that original goal.

Here are just a few of the new lessons in REST with Spring Boot:

1. HTTP Verbs and Semantics With Spring
   This is an extended version of an existing lesson that goes more in-depth with the theoretical aspects of REST API semantics annotations in Spring.
2. Spring and the Problem Details Spec
   In this part, you will explore the support that Spring Boot 3 adds for the Problem Details Specification, which aims to standardize a format to communicate machine-readable error details in an HTTP response.
3. End-To-End API Tests — WebTestClient
   what an API test is, the available tools, and focusing on the WebTestClient as our primary testing client
4. Document vs Discover a REST API
   The difference between these two approaches for the REST API
5. Document the API with Swagger and OpenAPI
   Deep dive into what the OpenAPI initiative covers and how the Swagger tools relate to it
6. Evolution of a REST API — a comprehensive guide to of API evolution, breaking and non-breaking changes, and backward compatibility. And yes, practical strategies to manage the inevitable changes

You’ll find the full outline over on the new course page:
>> REST with Spring Boot Outline

Is REST with Spring Boot Course worth it?

Yes, it’s worth it. Spring Boot is still the most popular framework for building web applications in Java applications in 2024. By far, and for good reason — using Spring and Spring Boot greatly simplified how Java web applications are built.

That said, architecting and implementing a solid, flexible and mature REST API that evolves well remains a considerably difficult task.

And that’s where the REST With Spring Boot course will help you, I mean getting you both started and also quite a bit beyond that with REST — best practices, leveraging Boot well, understanding HTTP and setting the foundation to later on evolve the API (yes, you’ll always need to change it later).

The new version of the course covers the theoretical foundation what a good API is but focuses on the practical development of a Spring Boot application.

In short, the REST with Spring Boot course is definitely worth it for its structure, content and coverage. You will not just learn how to create REST APIs with Spring Boot 3 but also best practices, leveraging Boot well, understanding HTTP and setting the foundation to later on evolve the API from an expert.

Eugen have tons of experience and that shows in his course. I highly recommend you to join this course.

Here is the link to join the course — REST With Spring Boot course

And, if you want to learn more, Eugen has create more Spring framework course on Baeldung to cover Spring security, Spring Data JPA and other technologies.

Here are the best Spring courses from Baeldung which you can join:

1. Learn Spring Security: The Certification Class
2. Learn Spring: The Master Class
3. Learn Spring Data JPA Certification class

These courses are great resources to learn Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 from scratch, in a guided, code-focused way

Conclusion

That’s all about the REST with Spring Boot 3 course. Similar to Eugen’s other course this one is also a great one, you will learn modern way to build REST API with Spring Boot. Along the way you will also learn essential tools like Open API and Swagger and IDEA plugins to see REST End points etc.

If you want to learn REST API with Spring Boot 3 then this course is for you but hurry up as early bird discount is ending today.

Here is the link to join the course — REST With Spring Boot course

All the best !!

P. S. — Even if you miss the early bird discount, you can still join the course as its totally worth the price.