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-and...

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-a...

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