AusDTO / brunch-spring-roll

Brunch skeleton for spring-boot

brunch-spring-roll

A Brunch skeleton for spring-boot

We created bunch-spring-boot to solve the following problems for one of our Spring-boot projects:

1. Minify and concatenate our frontend assets with one command
2. Auto deploy frontend changes without re-compiling the app during development
3. Apply and build frontend needs such as SASS compiling
4. Least impact on maven and Java side of the project
5. Must work well with Spring-boot

We looked at other projects such as Webpack and Wro4j. We found that they were either too much of a work around to work with Spring-boot, or too much overhead on the project. Brunch was simple, light weight and met our needs. And it provides a simple interface for a plugin. Hopefully this project will be helpful to others.

Install

1. Install node: http://nodejs.org/

2. Install Brunch globally:

   npm install -g brunch
   

3. Navigate to your Spring Boot resources folder and install brunch-spring-roll

   brunch new frontend -s https://github.com/AusDTO/brunch-spring-roll
   

   This creates a frontend folder under resources.

4. cd into your frontend folder and install dependencies

   npm install
   

Develop

After you build the spring-boot project mvn spring-boot:run Build brunch

brunch build

Builds all the assets into the public directory. Also copies all assets including templates into classes directory so you don't need to run mvn again.

brunch watch

Same as build and also listens for any changes to files and runs build as you develop.

Deploy

brunch build --production

Same as build and also minifies the assets.