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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

RouterLink for navigation


In this section, we will learn about the different techniques used for navigating route definitions having URL paths such as the following:

  • Fixed or static navigation paths such as /doctors and /hospitals
  • Dynamic navigation paths such as /doctors/PEDIATRICIAN or, rather, /doctors/:specialitycode, where the specialty code is the dynamic parameter

The following are the two key concepts which need to be understood in relation to navigating fixed or dynamic navigation paths, as mentioned earlier:

  • RouterLink
  • ActivatedRoute 

What is RouterLink?

Once the route definitions have been configured, and the router outlet is defined to render the routes, the next requisite step is to determine a way to navigate to these routes. This is where RouterLink comes into the picture.

RouterLink is a directive which is used with the anchor tag. It helps in navigating to different views based on the route paths (both, fixed and dynamic) configured as part of the route definitions in AppModule...