Spring Boot Angular

Overview:

This is a multi-module Spring Boot Angular 5 starter project. This starter project is just to spare the developers from project setup.

It has two modules -

1. backend: This contains Spring Boot based backend written in Java.
2. frontend: This contains Angular 5 based frontend of the application. I have also created a couple of basic routes, just to provide a starter for routes.

This project compiles the frontend module and creates a jar out of it and then uses that jar in the backend module. All of this is managed via maven.

Prerequisite:

Java 8: Download and install the JDK from official website.

Node.js : Download and install the latest version of node.

Angular CLI: It is the official way to bootstrap Angular applications. You can install it using your favourite package manager.

For npm, you can type npm install -g @angular/cli on your command-line.
If you use yarn, you can type yarn global add @angular/cli on your command-line.

Running the application:

Step 1. Run 'mvn clean install' at the root project directory:

xyz\spring-boot-angular>mvn clean install

Step 2. Switch to backend directory and run the Spring Boot app:

xyz\spring-boot-angular>cd backend

xyz\spring-boot-angular\backend>mvn spring-boot:run

You can now access the application at: http://localhost:8080

Running only frontend module for UI development:

Go to 'frontend' directory and run below command:

ng serve

You can now access the UI application at - http://localhost:4200/