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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a single page app (SPA) 


In this section, we will learn about some best practices which can be used to create a single page app. Some of them are listed next:

  • Keep the root module and root component as lean as possible. Program routing as a separate module and import the same in AppModule.
  • Design and develop features as separate modules.
  • Use route guards to provide controlled access to one or more components.

Lean root module

It is recommended to keep the top-level root module, routing module, and the root/shell component as lean as possible. This, essentially, means some of the following:

  • The root module should import the root-level routing module, root components, and feature modules. The following code represents the same. Make a note of the feature modules, such as DocModule, AuthModule, and AppRoutingModule:
        import { NgModule }      from '@angular/core';
        import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
        import { FormsModule }   from '@angular/forms...