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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building a UI with Bootstrap 4


Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com) is popular and very useful. It changes the way of building UIs for web applications. As you will see when we implement the UI, Bootstrap can boost our productivity by providing features that cover most parts of UI development. It is highly customizable, allowing us to create different themes. In this section, we will learn how to import Bootstrap into a Vue application and use it to build the register page. We will also change webpack's configuration to keep the styles of Bootstrap in a separate .css file.

Install and use Bootstrap

First of all, let's install Bootstrap and its dependencies into our frontend directory by running the following command:

npm install jquery popper.js bootstrap --save

Once it is installed, we will need to import Bootstrap's compiled CSS into our application. There are many ways to import Bootstrap using webpack. The approach we will use here is to create a new entry in webpack to group all of the third...