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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

Deploying Angular app in production


This section deals with learning different aspects of deploying an Angular app in  production. In one of the preceding section, you have learnt about how, as part of CI build, Angular app can be built, bundled and minified appropriately to create a JS bundle (artifact) which can be referenced within the index.html file.

In this section, you will learn about some of the following aspects in relation with Angular app deployment and related optimization techniques in relation with moving the Angular app to production.

  • Base tag in index.html file: The HTML tag such as following, as found in index.htl, is used for resolving relative URLs to assets such as images, scripts, and style sheets. It can be noted that, during navigation, Angular router uses the base href as the base path to component, template, and module files. The following setting works well for development server.
        <base href="/">

On production server, the base href path is changed appropriately...