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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating the backend scaffold with Spring Initializr


To generate the backend scaffold, instead of creating Maven's pom.xml file manually from scratch, we can use Spring Initializr to generate a Spring Boot application for us. To do that, let's go to https://start.spring.io and switch to the full version by clicking the Switch to the full version link, and then fill in form with the following parameters:

  • Group: com.taskagile
  • Artifact: app
  • Name: TaskAgile
  • Description: Open source task management tool
  • Package Name: com.taskagile
  • Dependencies: Web, Thymeleaf, JPA, and DevTools

After that, all we need to do is click the Generate Project button, as shown in Figure 8.1:

Figure 8.1: Spring Initializr

File structure

Once Spring Initializr finishes the generation of the skeleton of the backend of our TaskAgile application, we can see the following structure:

.
├── .gitignore
├── .mvn
│ └── wrapper
│ ├── maven-wrapper.jar
│ └── maven-wrapper.properties
├── mvnw
├── mvnw.cmd
├── pom.xml
└── src
    ├── main
 ...