Run a Spring Boot app in a Docker container
For development purposes, you can easily run Spring Boot apps with Docker Compose.
For development purposes, you can easily run Spring Boot apps with Docker Compose.
Shipping an application to the production requires reliable mechanisms responsible for auditing, health checks, and metrics collection. Fortunately, with Spring Boot we can apply those features effortlessly and monitor an app with Actuator.
We don’t want to allocate too much space for our log files. Let’s see how we can manage their livespan.
Apart from having logs displayed directly in the console, we can configure our Spring Boot project to write log entries into files. It not only allows us to easily store and share logs for debugging, but also can be the first step towards browsing them in Kibana.
Having automated database migrations will significantly ease managing schema development. With Spring Boot support we can effortlessly handle versioned SQL scripts.
An in-memory database may be sufficient during the early phase of project development. However, sooner or later you will need to persist some data. Read this post to learn how to configure a Spring Boot app to use a PostgreSQL database.
Each API requires comprehensive documentaiton. You can generate it using Swagger for a REST API. Its clients will get standardized and thorough insight while you won’t need to worry about keeping it up to date. Learn how to configure Swagger, generate documentation in JSON and render it with Swagger UI when frontend is supported by Angular.
This post covers issues that may occur when you map entities with ManyToOne bidirectional association. Read about mapping this relation while avoiding LazyInitializatinException, circular dependencies, n+1 select problem, wasting resources and false-positives in tests.
In this article you can read about applying Spring Security to the backend module of a Spring Boot and Angular app. Check out how to configure security, generate JWT tokens and protect API endpoints.
You can use the JSON Web Token standard as a part of your authentication and authorisation solution in a project built with Spring Boot and Angular. Check out this post to learn how to apply Spring Security, AuthGuard and JWT to your apps.