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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

By : Ajitesh Kumar Shukla
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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

By: Ajitesh Kumar Shukla

Overview of this book

Spring is the most popular application development framework being adopted by millions of developers around the world to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code. Its lightweight nature and extensibility helps you write robust and highly-scalable server-side web applications. Coupled with the power and efficiency of Angular, creating web applications has never been easier. If you want build end-to-end modern web application using Spring and Angular, then this book is for you. The book directly heads to show you how to create the backend with Spring, showing you how to configure the Spring MVC and handle Web requests. It will take you through the key aspects such as building REST API endpoints, using Hibernate, working with Junit 5 etc. Once you have secured and tested the backend, we will go ahead and start working on the front end with Angular. You will learn about fundamentals of Angular and Typescript and create an SPA using components, routing etc. Finally, you will see how to integrate both the applications with REST protocol and deploy the application using tools such as Jenkins and Docker.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction to JUnit 5


In this section, you will learn about JUnit 5 fundamentals, including some of the following:

  • Architectural building blocks of JUnit 5
  • How to get set up with JUnit 5 and run unit tests

Architectural building blocks of JUnit 5

JUnit 5 is a rewrite of JUnit. The following are three key building blocks of JUnit 5 along with support for the custom testing framework, which along with their components, are represented in the following diagram:

  • JUnit Platform
  • JUnit Jupiter
  • JUnit Vintage

Figure 2: JUnit 5 technology/application architecture

Unlike earlier versions of JUnit, JUnit 5 has been split into following three sub-projects in addition to the great flexibility of plugging in one's own custom testing engine/framework:

  • JUnit Platform: JUnit platform is the foundation building block of JUnit 5. The most important feature of JUnit 5 platform, which makes it standout, is the ability to allow the custom testing framework/engine to be plugged in, through the Testing API. This very...