Springboot Web Template

This is the template to get started on any web related project that involves spring boot. This contains standard libraries for building a site.

Libraries included:

Spring boot
Hibernate
Apache Freemaker(Java template engine)
Bootstrap
jQuery
Font Awesome
Less
Grunt(to compile less and minify assets)
NPM(Node package manager it will install js realted dependencies)
AngularJS 2(Included as part of the npm package, but not used in this template. But you can use it when you develop your project. All the dependecies will be downloaded when you follow the below steps)
PostgreSQL connector(You may need to install PostgreSQL DB seperately as it is not part of the template and add the credentails in src/main/resources/application.properties)

Steps to get started on the projects:

Import the spring boot project to IDE. Gradle is the package manger for java which will ensure all the dependencies are installed once you import the project.
Install Node.js globally if it is not yet installed. You can use the reference link mentioned in NodeJS section to see how it can be done.
Install grunt globally by running below command

npm install -g grunt-cli

Navigate to src/main/resources/static through terminal
Then run below command on terminal

sudo npm install

Then run grunt on terminal to compile less and minify css

grunt

Run the project using spring bootapp
Running localhost:8080 on browser will give you a template website.

NodeJS

How to install NodeJS is explained in below URL.

Ref: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#osx

Angular2

If you are planning to use Angular2, then all the required files will be installed as part of above steps. You need to follow instruction metioned in below site.

Ref: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstart.html

If you dont want to use Angualr2, then remove the angular reference from package.json and delete node_modules, systemjs.config.js, tsconfig.json, and typings.json and Run npm install again.