I think the book a friend told me about was the following. Full Stack Development with Spring Boot and React by Juha Hinkula https://www.packtpub.com/product/full-stack-development-with-spring-boot-an… It appears that there is a new version of this book as well. https://www.packtpub.com/product/full-stack-development-with-spring-boot-3-… I was looking at it and it says to install node js. This is where I think I had the stumbling point. Node JS is packaged in Fedora, yet node is a package manager itsself. I seemed to become a question of getting the correct dependency version. It appears that Node Version manager is the way to go! https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/nodejs/nodejs.html I tried the first portion of the book that has you go to the Spring IO project generator and it now targets Spring Boot 3.2.2. I imagine the code samples still have the Spring 2.0 tools. Well, that's some food for thought if anyone is interested. Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture