Web Project Seed

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Introduction

This is a small project for getting up to speed when creating a new web application from scratch using various technologies. It consists of two modules; web-app and integration-tests.

Technologies

The following is a listing of the major technologies used in order og relative significance.

1. Groovy
2. Java (8)
3. Spring (4)
4. MongoDB
5. Gradle
6. Maven
7. Node.js
8. Selenium
9. gulp.js

Local development

There are two ways of building and running the web application, both of which are listed below.

Prerequisites

Create the env.json file

Create an env.json file in the web-app module based on the following example env.json file:

{
  "env":        "dev",
  "compressed": false
}

Edit the file accordingly if need be.

Install Node.js dependencies

1. Firstly, install gulp so it is available from the command line: npm install -g gulp

2. Secondly, install all other dependencies: npm install from the web-app module

Building

Maven

1. Build the project: mvn clean install from the web-app sub-module.
2. Deploy into a servlet container like Apache Tomcat

Gradle

1. Build and start Jetty: gradle jettyRunWar from the web-app module

Running integration tests

To run the integration tests run mvn verify from the integration-tests sub-module.