How to Expose Spring Cloud Microservices to Frontends with Spring Cloud Gateway
This article explains why a gateway is needed in a Spring Cloud microservice architecture, compares Spring Cloud Gateway with Zuul, introduces its core concepts of routes, predicates, and filters, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for dependency setup, configuration, custom authentication and logging filters, rate limiting, circuit breaking, troubleshooting tips, and a complete gateway configuration for a blog system.
