🔥 This is very much outdated. You should not use it w/o updating JS and Java dependencies. 🔥

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Spring Boot + Vue.js + Docker Template

Minimal example of an app running Spring Boot in the backend with a Vue.js SPA as frontend.

• Spring Boot Application with a single HTTP service

• Vue.js application with a sample component

• Webpack Build for the frontend including live reload for development

• API Proxy for the local frontend development server to target the locally running backend

• Maven Build for the backend which also wraps the frontend build

• A Dockerfile to create an image from the jar produced.

• Travis build instructions running the maven and Docker build

The following frameworks where used:

• Spring Boot v2

• Vue.js v2 / Vue CLI 3

• vue-router and vuex

• SCSS styling support

• Docker w/ a minimal JRE 11 base image based on alpine

TODO

• Contract first implementation using swagger, generated server interfaces and JS client.

• CircleCI build, as I prefer it to Travis these days

Building

1. Run mvn clean install from the project’s root to build the complete application.

2. Run docker build -t wernerw/boot-vue-docker . or use your own tag

You now have a docker image containig your backend and your frontend. The generated API documentation is located at /doc/index.html

The docker image is pushed to https://hub.docker.com/r/wernerw/boot-vue-docker/

Running

• To run the jar directly, use java -jar target/boot-vue-docker*.jar

• To run inside a container on port 8080, use docker run -p8080:8080 wernerw/boot-vue-docker

Development

Frontend

Run npm run serve from src/main/frontend to run the a local dev server for UI development. The dev server will run on http://localhost:8081. It proxies the requests to backend HTTP API expected to run on http://localhost:8080/api. So you can run the backend from your IDE and the frontend in the dev server.

If you run the complete package, the frontend requests will be made against /api on the same server.

If you are using IntelliJ/WebStorm, you need to configure the path to the webpack config that is provided by vue-cli for webpack aliases (i.e. @ for src) to work. Preferences › Webpack › webpack configuration file › <project root › /src/main/frontend/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/webpack.config.js