angular-contacts

A contacts application using Spring Boot + AngularJS by Kean Ching.

Features

• Advanced routing using ui-router (sticky tabs)
• Integration with Spring restful endpoints
• Bootstrap theme
• Project structure organized by features
• Following conventions of the angular style guide

Online demo

Located at https://kean-angular-contacts.herokuapp.com

Running locally

• mvn spring-boot:run
• Open url in browser: http://localhost:8080
• Optionally, set spring.profiles.active property to specify the environment, for example: mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Dspring.profiles.active=prd"

Build and deploy

• grunt then mvn package to create a deployable war file

Follow instructions below for local development

Install Git

• Install git from git-scm.com
• Verify install with git --version

Install Node.js

• Download from nodejs.org and install
• Verify with node -v

Update npm

Node comes with npm installed so you should have a version of npm. However, npm gets updated more frequently than Node does, so you'll want to make sure it's the latest version

• npm install -g npm
• Verify with npm -v

Install Grunt

• npm install -g grunt-cli
• Verify with grunt --version

Install Bower (optional)

• npm install -g bower
• Verify with bower -v
• bower install

devDependencies are for the development-related scripts, e.g. unit testing, packaging scripts, documentation generation, etc.
dependencies are required for production use, and assumed required for dev as well.

Install npm dependencies

• npm install

Build js files

• grunt

Watch files while developing

• grunt watch