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Lean Application Engineering

Learn lean application engineering techniques building a single page web application and RESTful web services using Backbone.Marionette.js and the Spring Framework. Eliminate wasteful boilerplate code and focus on your features.

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This book is a full-stack engineering experience. Build both a single-page application (SPA) client-side user interface and a complete set of RESTful web services. Begin by rapidly prototyping using an in-memory database. Then learn to integrate with both MySQL and MongoDB.

Ready for production? We've got you covered. The book dedicates chapters to development operations and production operations. Learn to quickly, simply, and reliably build, package, configure, deploy, and monitor the applications in production server environments.

Part I. Introduction

Paradigm Shift
About the Book
Intended Audience
Source Code Bundles

Part II. Web Services Foundation

Bootstrap the Web Services Project

A Proper Foundation
Installing the Dependencies
Choosing a Source Editor
Structuring the Project

Getting Started with Spring Boot

Updating the POM
Application.java
Starting the Server

Building the First RESTful Web Service

Cohesion
Updating the POM
Creating the Entity Model
Creating the Repository
Creating the Service
Creating the Controller
Creating the Cross-Origin Filter
Updating the Application
Running the Application

Part III. User Interface Foundation

Bootstrap the User Interface Project

Installing the Dependencies
Choosing a Source Editor
Structuring the Project

Getting Started with Marionette

The Marionette Application
Marionette Modules
Displaying Static Content
Organizing the Application

Marionette Messaging

Event Aggregator
Commands
Request Response

Integrating with Web Services

Creating the Issue Entity
Creating the Issue Manager Module
Listing Issues at Startup
Running the Application

Part IV. CRUD

Creating Issues
Viewing Issues
Updating Issues
Deleting Issues

Part V. Production Features

Development Operations

Web Services
User Interface
Deployment Strategies

Configuration

Property Files
Property File Load Order
Using Profiles with Property Files
Spring Boot Property Reference

Production Databases

Relational Databases
Integrating with MySQL
NoSQL Databases
Integrating with MongoDB

Production Monitoring and Management

Introducing Actuator
Enabling Actuator
Endpoints
Configuration
Health Check
Application Information
Metrics
Tracing
Conclusions

Part VI. Epilogue

Part VII. Appendices

Appendix A: Dependency Versions
Appendix B: Iconography
Appendix C: CoffeeScript
Appendix D: Gulp

The concepts discussed in this book are illustrated through rich example projects for both the Single Page Application user interface and the RESTful web services. As you read the book and construct the applications, you will become familiar with several technology frameworks and programming languages.

Single Page Application

Technologies

Backbone.Marionette.js
Backbone.js
Underscore.js
jQuery
BootStrap
Grunt
Gulp¹

Languages

JavaScript
CoffeeScript²
HTML
CSS

¹ The book illustrates the single page application assembly processes using Grunt; however, the same functionality is also authored in Gulp for the reader's reference.

² The book illustrates the single page application using JavaScript; however, the complete project is also available in CoffeeScript.

RESTful Web Services

Technologies

The Spring Framework
Spring Boot
Spring Data JPA
Spring Data MongoDB¹
Maven
HSQLDB
MySQL
MongoDB¹

Languages

Java

¹ The book illustrates data persistence using the Spring Data JPA project; however, a chapter is dedicated to MongoDB persistence and the complete project integration with MongoDB is available for reference.

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