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Building an Event Ticketing App with Quarkus & ButterCMS

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event-ticketing-app-quarkus

Building an Event Ticketing App with Quarkus & ButterCMS

This is a demo project that integrates ButterCMS with Quarkus. It mimics a ticketing platform on which clients can book tickets for events added by editor through Butter.

The building process is documented in the related blog post.

Architecture

The system is organised around Butter and the service that allows clients to book tickets:

The system architecture that shows that Butter communicates with the ticket-service through webhook. It also exposes that the service has a database and that it communicates with Butter through REST API.

Running the application in dev mode

You can run your application in dev mode that enables live coding using:

./mvnw compile quarkus:dev

NOTE: Quarkus now ships with a Dev UI, which is available in dev mode only at http://localhost:8080/q/dev/.

Packaging and running the application

The application can be packaged using:

./mvnw package

It produces the quarkus-run.jar file in the target/quarkus-app/ directory. Be aware that it’s not an über-jar as the dependencies are copied into the target/quarkus-app/lib/ directory.

The application is now runnable using java -jar target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar.

If you want to build an über-jar, execute the following command:

./mvnw package -Dquarkus.package.type=uber-jar

The application, packaged as an über-jar, is now runnable using java -jar target/*-runner.jar.

Creating a native executable

You can create a native executable using:

./mvnw package -Pnative

Or, if you don't have GraalVM installed, you can run the native executable build in a container using:

./mvnw package -Pnative -Dquarkus.native.container-build=true

You can then execute your native executable with: ./target/ticket-service-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner

If you want to learn more about building native executables, please consult https://quarkus.io/guides/maven-tooling.