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Suitability, Testing, and Conclusions

Understand how to assess if a full reactive stack fits your project needs and client capabilities. Explore testing strategies for reactive streams using tools like StepVerifier. Learn to weigh the benefits and challenges of adopting Spring WebFlux to make informed development decisions.

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Suitability

You should evaluate if a full reactive stack fits your case. Do you require SQL queries to complete your web response? Bad news: reactive support for relational databases are still in a very early stage.

Look also at the client’s side. Can your web clients switch to a reactive approach? If the answer is no, then the list of advantages you’ll get becomes smaller.

Testing

Writing unit and integration tests for reactive streams with WebFlux might be tricky. The  ...