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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

Chapter 15. Deploying to the Cloud with Jenkins - Ship It Continuously

Finally, it is time to ship our application. There are many ways to get our application deployed to the production environment. We can choose to do it manually, starting from running the mvn clean install command, to sending the .jar file to servers using tools such as FTP or the scp command, then stopping the old version of the application and starting the new version, followed by initiating the E2E test. Or, we can write Python/shell scripts to automate some of the steps. Either way, there are manual steps, which creates room for errors. That's why rolling out an application manually or half-manually is always stressful. Constant focus is required throughout the entire release.

Nowadays, there are various tools that can help us with that. Many of these tools provide deep integration with Version Control Systems (VCS), such as Git, and are free for open source projects. For example, Travis CI will build your application...