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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Configuring Route definitions


Route definitions represent association of one or more URL paths to the respective components. Each of these route definitions can also be termed as a route. Route definitions or routes, are stored in an array and loaded using Router.forRoot or Router.forChild API depending upon whether routes are defined at root level or submodule/feature module level. When the users click on the hyperlink (URL), the router looks for the corresponding route, and based on appropriate path matching strategy (prefix by default) determines the component to display. The following are the key steps to configure route definitions:

  • Define route definitions in the form of an array of routes. The following code represents route definitions where no parameters are passed (such as new user registration and user login), and one where parameters are passed (such as to get information for doctors, patients, hospitals, and so on). Note that the path will have no leading slashes (/). The Router...