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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

Setting up the Angular development environment


Before getting started with setting up the local development environment for Angular apps, one should install NodeJS and NPM. One can go to the NodeJS website (https://nodejs.org/en/), download the appropriate installer for NodeJS/NPM, and install the tool. In order to confirm that NodeJS and NPM are set up correctly, the following command can be executed to print their versions:

// Prints NodeJS version
node -v

// Print NPM version
npm -v

The next step is to install Angular CLI globally. Angular CLI is command-line interface for Angular. It provides commands for creating a boilerplate app right out of the box based on the best practices, generating components, routes, services, and so on. Also, running/testing the app locally while developing. It provide for an error-free setup, it is recommended to execute the following command as an administrator. On Linux/macOS, sudo can be used with the following command. On Windows, one can right click...