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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

Setting up the development environment using Docker compose


In this section, we will learn how to set up an on-demand, self-service development environment using Docker compose. The following are some of the points covered in this section:

  • What is Docker compose
  • The Docker compose script for setting up the development environment

What is Docker compose?

Docker compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. One will require to create a Compose file  to configure the application's services. The following steps are required to be taken in order to work with Docker compose:

  • Define the application’s environment with a Dockerfile so it can be reproduced anywhere.
  • Define the services that make up the application in docker-compose.yml so they can be run together in an isolated environment.
  • Lastly, run docker-compose, and Compose will start and run the entire application.

As we are going to set up a multi-container application using Tomcat and MySQL as different containers...