This project came from the desire to have a React app that can be built and tested as an isolated ui project, but also configured to be embedded into a deployable war.
For now, this project requires you to have npm installed. Not sure if you have it? Run npm -v. If you have npm, a version will display.
To build, run the following command from the root directory of this repo:
./gradlew buildThe UI is separated from the java src, and can be run without the backend for quicker frontend development (real-time code changes). To run just the frontend:
cd ui/
npm startServed at http://localhost:3000/
Current Goals
- Make a spring boot app that works in tomcat as a deployable war, without using any xml configuration
- Use a port other than 8080, ex. 8090
For the original Spring Boot web app, see the sample-web-app.
Two options, both served at http://localhost:8090/spring-boot-react/
Run from the root directory
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As a deployable war in a tomcat instance with cargo plugin (check cargo config for outputFile location, as it logs separately):
./gradlew cargoRunLocal -i
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As a Spring Boot app (backend only - no UI):
./gradlew bootRun
The war uses the project.name property for it's name. For this project, it's set in settings.gradle, as:
rootProject.name = 'spring-boot-react'This Gradle project is also configured to use project.name as the root context for running the war. This way, if you clone this repo to a different root folder name (or rename the root folder), it will still use rootProject.name for the war and root context.
Some useful commands for on-going dev work
From ui directory:
# serve ui for active changes
npm start
# manually running the ui build
npm run build
# update your node_modules from the package.json
npm install
# clean ui build output
../gradlew cleanFrom root directory
# clean previous build output and build war
./gradlew clean build
# force rebuild of ui and assemble java web app before running war
./gradlew clean cargoRunLocal -i
# run just the backend (a faster startup if you need to test api endpoints)
./gradlew bootRun