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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

Creating Jenkins jobs for CI


In this section, you will learn to create Jenkins jobs for continuous integration builds. This is pretty straightforward. Go to the Jenkins Dashboard page and click on New Item(Jenkins | New Item). Note we need to create two jobs, one for Spring apps and another one for Angular app. For Spring apps, choose Maven project, as shown in the following screenshot. For Angular apps, select the Freestyle project option, give it a name, to the project and click Save. Now you are all set to configure job for the CI build:

Figure 3: Creating new job in Jenkins

The next step is to configure the job for the CI build. Running a job for a Spring app would do a maven build and run the unit tests, by default.

Angular app would required to be bundled in order to be deployed in production. This can be achieved using browserify (http://browserify.org/).  The following are the different steps which can be executed as part of building Angular app for production:

  • Build the app: The following...