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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

Setting up Jenkins and GitLab


First, you need to set up a code repository and a CI/CD tool. In this chapter, we will use GitLab as the code repository and Jenkins as CI/CD tool for demonstration purpose. In real world scenario, one may not require to setup these tools and is rather done by the IT team. Both are open source tools, and can thus, be downloaded and set up without any issues.

Setting up Jenkins

In this section, you will learn how to setting up and configure Jenkins and some plugins which will be used to build the Spring project. Jenkins (https://jenkins.io/) is a self-contained Java-based open-source software that is popularly used for continuous integration and continuous delivery of web applications.

  • Instructions on installing Jenkins can be found at https://jenkins.io/doc/book/getting-started/installing/. Depending on the development environment OS, you can follow the appropriate instructions and install Jenkins appropriately. In recent times, mostly for development purposes...