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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Put it together


Now, let's put the frontend and the backend of the Messages App together. We will populate the messages list in the UI by querying messages from the database and save new messages to the database after clicking the Add button in the UI.

The following are the things we need to do to make the integration work:

  • Place the frontend and backend code in the same project
  • Add APIs to the backend for getting messages and saving new messages
  • Add the ability to communicate with the backend to the frontend

Place code together

In Chapter 2, Vue.js 2 - It Works in the Way You Expected, we created the frontend and usedhttp-serverto serve theindex.htmlfile and the static .js assets. When the integration is done, the embedded Tomcat server will serve these files. Now, let's move the frontend code to the backend.

Note

Besides putting the frontend and the backend together in a single project and deploying it as a whole, you can also keep them separated and deploy them separately so that the team can...