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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

Installing/configuring the Apache Tomcat server


One can skip this section when working with a Spring Boot project. This is because starting a Spring boot application, using public static void main as an entry point, launches an embedded web server and, thus, one would not require starting a server such as Tomcat.  

In this section, we will learn about some of the following:

  • How to install and configure the Apache Tomcat server
  • Common deployment approaches with the Tomcat server
  • How to add the Tomcat server in Eclipse

The Apache Tomcat software is an open-source implementation of the Java servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket technologies. We will work with Apache Tomcat 8.x version in this book. We will look at both, the Windows and Unix version of Java. One can go to http://tomcat.apache.org/ and download the appropriate version from this page. At the time of installation, it requires you to choose the path to one of the JREs installed on your computer...