/not-only-node

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not-only-node

The stack has been developed in the spirit of facilitating a common web application architecture to server side Java and NodeJS Developers both.

Please note that followings are the specs/features which will be implemented in future.
Current status is not complete and not at all ready for use as of now.

Description

  • The client serving assets are placed in src/main/webapp/client-assets folder.

  • This folder is common for using in either of the mode be it Java or be it NodeJS.

  • Running the front-end-build does the following

    • downloads the bower dependencies and installs it to the client-assets/bower-repo folder.
    • will compile the css files to the output counterparts css
    • will run the JSLint / CSSLint related validations
    • will run the browserify to make us feel the node way scripting inside the browser.
    • will combine and minify the files with the help of grunt / gulp
    • will minify the images for browsers
    • will convert all data found within a stylesheet (those within a url( ... ) declaration) into base64-encoded data URI strings. This includes images and fonts.
    • ...
    • ...

  • Using as a server side Java Stack

    • root folder in this case is the code-base having pom.xml in it.
    • pom.xml is configured to run the front-end-build (This plugin downloads/installs Node and NPM locally for your project, runs NPM install, installs bower dependencies, run Grunt and/or gulp and/or Karma.)
    • lets' open command prompt and go to the code-base directory
    • Run the command mvn clean install
    • As an output we have the web archive file named ROOT.war in code-base/target folder.
    • Deploy this war file to the application server like Apache Tomcat/Glassfish/JBoss etc.

  • Using as a server side NodeJS stack

    • root folder in this case is the code_base\src\main\webapp\code_for_node having package.json in it.
    • package.json is configured to run the front-end-build which is with the help of npm.
    • The scripts related to running the front-end-build are placed in the package.json
    • Being in the root folder for this we just need to run the command npm install for building the application
    • To start the server we just need to run npm start from the root directory