WebApp Tutorial

This is tutorial material for building web apps with Spring Boot, Spring Data Rest, Anguluar 2 and TypeScript.

Used Technologies

Java 8 for the REST services
Typescript for the web client
HAL (Hypertext Application Language) fpr hypermedia
Spring Boot (+ Data, REST, HATEOAS)
Angular for web client
JUnit for Java unit and integration testing
Mockito for Mocking
Gradle as build system
Node.js, npm, webpack for the web client build

Requirements

Java 8 (JDK) installed

You don’t need to install Node.js and all the JavaScript tooling, since those tools are installed automatically by the Gradle build. But it would be convenient to have those tools installed if you want to use them directly instead of using the Gradle wrapper tasks.

Optional
- Node.js and npm installed

Getting Started

When you want to run the tutorial locally, prepare all the labs:

./gradlew clean build (builds all the tutorial labs (Java parts + JavaScript parts), runs all the Java tests)

Creating a tutorial VM with Vagrant

In the vagrant directory you find a Vagrantfile to create a (German) development environment.

Install Vagrant and VirtualBox
Invoke "vagrant up" in a terminal
Wait for 20 minutes letting Vagrant create the whole virtual machine
In the VM, log in as vagrant/vagrant and then invoke: startx
The latest Ubuntu with a simple desktop will start up
You find this project at /home/vagrant/webapp-tutorial
All Gradle and JavaScript dependencies are already in the VM
You find an IntelliJ IDEA trial under /opt
Open terminal in the IntelliJ/…./bin folder and type ./idea
Before importing the webapp-tutorial project with Gradle you have to configure the Java 8 JDK
After starting IntelliJ you have to install the Lombok plugin manually.

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