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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

Introduction to routing


The routing concept in relation to web applications represents the ability to do some of the following:

  • Navigate to different pages, for example, from one page to another, or, from one view to another by clicking on a URL
  • Navigate back and forward through the history of pages using the back and forward button of the browser

The Angular router helps to achieve the earlier mentioned capability of moving from one view to another while users work through the application. When the browser's URL changes, the router looks for a corresponding route from which it can determine the component to display. The following are some key aspects which need to be taken care of while working with the Angular router:

  • Add a base element in index.html. This instructs Angular Router to create navigation URLs for different views. The following code can be found within the <head> tag in index.html. While moving the app to production, the base href need to be set to appropriate path such...