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Short summary

Step-by-step tutorial for integrating Google Gemini AI into a Spring Boot backend and React frontend, emphasizing the backend-as-proxy security pattern to protect API keys. Includes complete code examples for service layer, DTOs, REST controller, and React component setup.

• •Backend proxy pattern prevents frontend API key exposure
• •Uses Spring RestTemplate to call Gemini API directly without external AI libraries
• •Complete working example with Java DTOs, Spring service, and React chat component

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