Developing a multi-module application where the backend runs on Spring Boot and the frontend is powered by Angular is far less complicated than one might expect. Check out how you can build such a project and manage it as a single jar file.
Material Design for Bootstrap 4 provides an Angular Bootstrap UI KIT. It’s built with Angular 6, Bootstrap 4 and TypeScript and can immediately transform the look and fell of your application. Let’s add its features to an Angular project.
Angular can maintain any of the major CSS preprocessors. By default the new project is created with the css support, but even after its creation, you can easily switch to sass or less. You can also adjust the preprocessor globally, for all new projects.
There are many responsive and elegant themes available for free that you can use for polishing the presentation layer of your project. But almost always there is a need to add some adjustments to them and in this post you can see how custom styles can be included while the assets are being built with gulp.
Separating the business logic from the presentation layer can save you a lot of headache during project maintenance. Unless the frontend is managed with a framework like Angular or Vue.js you should use a template engine. Check out how to utilize jtwig in a Spring Boot project.
To make an app elegant and pleasing to the eye we usually need a lot of javascript and css code. The times of templates cluttered with script and style tags, however, are long gone. Check out how to manage static resources with gulp.
Proper handling of javascript dependencies allows every team member to use the same library versions during project development. Keeping them consistent prevents many elusive errors and can be easily achieved with npm.
To make sure you will never lose your code, store your project on an online repository hosting service. No matter if you already have some work in progress on your local machine, or you are starting the project from scratch – backup your code online as soon as possible.
With Spring Initializr you can bootstrap a new Spring Boot application swiftly. Let’s create a fresh project from scratch using just Web and MySQL dependencies.