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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

Building Angular services for RESTful integration


In this section, you will learn about different ways in which Angular components can communicate with server APIs, such as Spring RESTful APIs:

  • Invoking server APIs using the Angular HTTP service
  • Invoking server APIs using the Angular HtClient service

Invoking server APIs using the Angular HTTP service

In this section, you will learn about some of the key aspects related with usage of the Angular HTTP service APIs for having Angular app communicate with server APIs such as Spring RESTful APIs. Note, the HTTP service is part of HttpModule:

  1. Create a data service: Create a class, namely, DoctorService in a file, namely, doctor.service.ts and annotate it with @Injectable
  2. Inject the HTTP service in the constructor of this service class. The following is the sample code:
        import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
        import { Http } from '@angular/http';

        @Injectable()
        export class DoctorService {
          //
         ...