In the era of high-performance web applications, developers strive to build responsive and scalable systems. To address this demand, the Spring team introduced WebFlux, a reactive programming framework built on top of Reactive Streams. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore WebFlux and its benefits and demonstrate how it empowers our code by building a simple application.
What Is WebFlux?
WebFlux is a non-blocking, reactive web framework that enables developers to build highly concurrent and efficient applications. It is part of the Spring 5 release and is fully compatible with the Spring ecosystem. WebFlux is designed to work with Reactive Streams, which is a specification for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure.