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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

How to run the Spring Boot app 


In this section, you will learn about three different techniques using to run the Spring Boot app.

  • Using Eclipse IDE: This is pretty straightforward. One can run from within the Eclipse IDE using the following two different methods:
    • Right-click on the project and click on Run as > Spring Boot App. This will run the Spring Boot app.
    • Click on the green-color button in the toolbar. This will open a a few options. Click on Run as > Spring Boot App to run the app. 
  • Using Command Prompt: One could do the following to run the Spring Boot  app from Command Prompt:
    • Build the app using the following command. This will create a jar or war file within the target directory:
          mvn clean package
    • Execute the following command to run the app assuming that the jar file is created within the target directory. Note that healthapp is the artifact ID, which is assigned during the creation of the app. The value artifact ID can also be found in the pom.xml file:
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