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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

Forms


Angular 4 supports creating forms using techniques such as template-driven forms, reactive forms (also termed as model-driven forms), and dynamic forms. In this section, we shall quickly go through some of the important aspects of each technique, and when can they be used.

The following are some key aspects of form handling that shall be dealt with while creating forms using different techniques:

  • Creating form controls such as input elements such as text fields, dropdowns, and so on
  • Binding form controls with the associated data
  • Creating appropriate validations rules, and displaying validation message appropriately for one or more form controls based on business rules
  • Conditionally enabling or disabling one or more form controls such as input fields
  • Interacting with the backend for data processing
  • Submitting data to the backend
  • Retrieving responses from the backend and displaying them on the UI appropriately 

Template-driven forms

Template-driven forms are created using templates based on the...