JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

In this article we continue our discussion of how to use Spring Security with Angular JS in a “single page application”. Here we show how to use Angular JS to authenticate a user via a form and fetch a secure resource to render in the UI. This is the second in a series of articles, and you can catch up on the basic building blocks of the application or build it from scratch by reading the first article, or you can just go straight to the source code in Github. In the first article we built a simple application that used HTTP Basic authentication to protect the backend resources. In this one we add a login form, give the user some control over whether to authenticate or not, and fix the issues with the first iteration (principally lack of CSRF protection).

PHP and AngularJS Apps Made Easy: Everything you need to kickstart AngularJS projects: a best-practice directory structure, an intelligent build system, and the best web design libraries around.

PHANG uses Silex, a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra.

Developing web applications today is quite easy, you will find always a framework/library that does most of the work for you. 

Some month ago, I heard about Apigility and lately I have been playing a little with it. So what’s Apigility?: Apigility is an API Builder, designed to simplify creating and maintaining useful, easy to consume, and well structured APIs. 

For this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a Todo-Api, using Apigility on the backend and Ember.js on the front end. 

Today we will see how to create a complete Java web application using Spring, Angular, JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Tiles, Maven, Tomcat, JPA/Hibernate.

The project that will be done here in this post will be used in another post that I will write, because of this future post, in this post will be described a detailed environment configuration. I will be using linux as my operational system (OS), but almost nothing will change if you use Windows or other OS.

In this post we will see a project using Spring framework with the following modules: Spring MVC, SpringData e Spring Security. We will see how to do internationalization (i18n) with SpringMVC and templates with Tiles framework.

Postgre will be the database used here, but if you want use it with MySQL just add the MySQL jar to the project and change some configuration. In this post will be displayed both Postgre and MySQL configurations.

What we will see in here:

Page 02: Environment Setup
Page 03: Creating the project
Page 04: Understanding the “pom.xml”, “log4j.xml” and the “context.xml” files
Page 05: Creating the Spring and the project XMLs
Page 06: Tiles – Page templates
Page 07: Project Model Classes
Page 08: Using SpringData as Repository (DAO); creating User Service
Page 09: Using SpringData as Repository (DAO); creating Contact Service
Page 10: Creating the Controllers
Page 11: Using Restful approach with SpringMVC
Page 12: Understanding the Login, SpringMVC Interceptor and the Security Rules
Page 13: First Contact with Angular.js and the SpringMVC
Page 14: Using Angular.js bind in a HTML table
Page 15: Internationalization (i18n) with Spring
Page 16: Understanding the Twitter Bootstrap role
Page 17: Running the project

PHP is not going to disappear soon, but its position is being undermined even further by the nascent Node.js. When the Internet exploded in the 2000′s, PHP was the thing ”all the cool kids” did.

Over the years, PHP and its apps became vulnerable to security threats (e.g., SQL injections), lacked a centralized packaging registry (was Composer inspired by Node Package Manager?), had an inconsistent API and suffered from subpar performance. It’s easy to argue that there are better alternatives to PHP, for example Ruby on Rails and Django, however nothing is as approachable as Node.js.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Node.js, or who have heard of it but can’t quite grasp the concept, I like to say that it is functionally similar to the PHP + Apache or ASP + IIS stacks. Nowadays, it is also gaining momentum.

Many people, whether software engineers or entrepreneurs, are often faced with the decision: “What tech stack should I use?” In this article, I’ll try to compare PHP and Node.js using an apples-to-apples approach, looking at the question from different angles including:

* Syntax

* Context switch

* Modules
* Ecosystem
* Frameworks
* Real-time apps
* Database apps
* Third-party services apps
* Web servers
* Hosting
* Performance

The web is evolving so quickly.
While web browsers and computers are getting more powerful, architectures which give load to clients are getting popular.

Single Page Application (SPA) idea is one of them. In this post, I’ll setup a simple boilerplate for my future SPA tutorials. I’am going to keep posting about SPAs based on this boilerplate.

Ember.js is a front end JavaScript MVC framework, but probably won't map to the exact same MVC patterns as CakePHP does on the server side. I cover the major features of Ember.js and attempt to make the connection to CakePHP classes where it applies.