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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

Bootstrapping an Angular app


Every Angular app has, at least, one Angular module which is bootstrapped to launch the application. The module is also called as root module and it is placed in the root folder of the app. The root module is used to define all the modules and components which fit in together to build the app. The conventional name for this module is AppModule. The following is a sample code for AppModule, that is used to bootstrap the app with reactive forms.

    import { NgModule }      from '@angular/core';
    import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
    import { ReactiveFormsModule }   from '@angular/forms';

    import { AppComponent }  from './app.component';
    import { LoginComponent } from './rlogin/login.component';

    @NgModule({
      imports:      [ BrowserModule, ReactiveFormsModule ],
      declarations: [ AppComponent, LoginComponent ],
      bootstrap:    [ AppComponent ]
    })
    export class AppModule { }

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