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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

Best practices


The following are some of the best practices which one can adopt for developing Angular apps:

  • Apply the single responsibility principle:
    • Write one thing such as component, directive, service, and module per file
    • Write small functions with a function doing just one thing
  • Naming Convention:
    • Use upper camel case for class names and interfaces. For example, AppComponent, AppModule.
    • Use lower camel case for naming properties and methods.
    • Avoid using underscore as a prefix for naming methods and properties.
    • Match the class names with the file names in the following manner: AppComponent - app.component.ts, BigAppComponent - big-app.component.ts, AppModule - app.module.ts, AppDirective - app.directive.ts, AppService - app.service.ts
    • Use custom prefixes for components and directives selectors.
  • Bootstraping: Put bootstraping logic in a file named main.ts
    • Use Data Services: One should use data services for doing data operations such as making XHR calls, processing data with local storage, and...