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Spring Boot and Angular

By : Devlin Basilan Duldulao, Seiji Ralph Villafranca
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Book Image

Spring Boot and Angular

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By: Devlin Basilan Duldulao, Seiji Ralph Villafranca

Overview of this book

Angular makes building applications with the web easy and Spring Boot helps get an application up and running using just a few lines of code and minimal configuration. This book provides insights into building full-stack apps using Angular and Spring Boot effectively to reduce overall development time and increase efficiency. You'll start by setting up your CI/CD pipeline and then build your web application’s backend guided by best practices. You'll then see how Spring Boot allows you to build applications faster and more efficiently by letting the Spring Framework and Spring Boot extension do the heavy lifting. The book demonstrates how to use Spring Data JPA and add its dependencies along with Postgres dependencies in the project to save or persist a user's data in a database for future use. As you advance, you'll see how to write tests and test a service using Mockito. Finally, you'll create a CI workflow or pipeline for a Spring Boot and Angular application to enable operations to deliver quality applications faster. By the end of this Spring Boot and Angular book, you'll be able to build a full-stack web application and deploy it through continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Overview of Spring Boot and Angular Development
4
Part 2: Backend Development
12
Part 3: Frontend Development
19
Part 4: Deployment

Adding models

In this section, we will now write code for our application, and the first thing we will create is models. In simple terms, models are the object of our application; the models will serve as our entities and will define our tables in the database.

Once we create models and run the application, this will also generate tables in our database automatically with the help of annotations, which will also be discussed throughout this example.

Creating models with DTOs and Lombok

We will first show you how to write models using Lombok and data transfer objects (DTOs). First, we will discuss DTOs.

DTOs

DTOs are responsible for carrying data between processes to reduce the number of method calls. DTOs are plain old Java objects (POJOs) that commonly consist of data accessors.

DTOs are very useful for creating representations of our entities to have views for clients without affecting the pattern and design. Let’s have an example use case for DTOs. You can...