Spring Boot WebFlux Client (Reactive WebClient + MongoDB API)

🌍 Description

This is a reactive Spring Boot project that consumes an external REST API using WebClient. It connects to a backend service that provides product data (CRUD) stored in MongoDB and demonstrates how to consume reactive endpoints with non-blocking programming.

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🚀 Features

• 🔁 Consumes a reactive REST API using WebClient
• 📦 Retrieves product data from another Spring WebFlux service
• 🧩 Functional programming style with Router + Handler
• ✅ Reactive error handling and data streaming
• 🧪 Easily extensible for integration testing

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⚙️ Technologies Used

• Java 22+
• Spring Boot 3.x
• Spring WebFlux
• WebClient (reactive)
• Maven

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▶️ How to Run

# 1. Make sure the API REST is running on http://localhost:8080
# (This project depends on 'spring-boot-webflux-apirest')

# 2. Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/freyderdev/spring-boot-webflux-client.git
cd spring-boot-webflux-client

# 3. Run the application
./mvnw spring-boot:run

The client will start on http://localhost:8090 or your configured port.

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📡 Consumed API

This client connects to: https://github.com/freyderdev/spring-boot-webflux-apirest

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🧠 Author

Freyder Otálvaro
GitHub
Colombia 🇨🇴