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Reputation: 403

Using angular2 in a Spring webapp WITHOUT node.js

I just made the move from Angular 1 to 2, and now I am going to create a spring mvc maven webapp with angular2 for the front-end side of it.

But everywhere on the internet I see people using node.js for the necessary libraries & plugins. Is there a way I can just use maven dependencies for this?

App structure:

_ main
   _ java
   _ resources
   _ webapp
       _ components
            _ app.component.ts
       _ img
       _ WEB-INF
       _ index.html
       _ main.ts

main.ts

//getting an error on the bootstrap import 
//because the angular2 folders aren't there because there is no node
import {bootstrap} from 'angular2/platform/browser'

import {AppComponent} from './components/app.component.ts'

bootstrap(AppComponent);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3487

Answers (1)

Adrien BARRAL
Adrien BARRAL

Reputation: 3604

I personaly use Angular2 with a backend in Java, the whole packaged in a .war file.

Backend libraries are managed with Maven, and front end with NPM. My project structure is like this : 

_ backend
  _ src
    _ main
      _ java
      _resources
_ frontend
  <angular-cli project>
  _ package.json ...

Note that NPM manage all my front dependencies, for now, I don't bundle anything because my application run in debug for now.

I have a deployement script wich copy the bundled version of my frontend in resources/static (or webapp) folder of the backend.

If you want some help to manage your webapp folder for Angular2, you can try AngularCLI. The project is at a very early stage, but you can do some interesting thing with it, and it will help you to create the boilerplate, it will download for you all the dependencies.

Upvotes: 3

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