19 Spring Security for reactive apps
This chapter covers
- Using Spring Security with reactive applications.
- Using reactive apps in a system designed with OAuth 2.
Reactive is a different programming paradigm, where we apply a different way of thinking when developing the application than usual. Reactive applications are a powerful way of developing web apps. We’ve seen them lately used more and more in real-world examples. I would even say that it became a fashion a few years ago when any important conference had at least a few presentations discussing reactive apps. Like any other technology in software development, reactive programming doesn’t represent a solution applicable to every situation.