Technology stack

Technology stack on the client side

Single Web page application:

• AngularJS v1.x or Angular v2+
• Responsive Web Design with Twitter Bootstrap
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Compatible with IE11 and modern browsers
• Full internationalization support
• Optional Sass support for CSS design
• Optional WebSocket support with Spring Websocket

With the great development workflow:

• Easy installation of new JavaScript libraries with Bower or Yarn
• Build, optimization and live reload with Gulp.js or Webpack
• Testing with Karma, PhantomJS and Protractor

And what if a single Web page application isn’t enough for your needs?

• Support for the Thymeleaf template engine, to generate Web pages on the server side

Technology stack on the server side

A complete Spring application:

• Spring Boot for easy application configuration
• Maven or Gradle configuration for building, testing and running the application
• “development” and “production” profiles (both for Maven and Gradle)
• Spring Security
• Spring MVC REST + Jackson
• Optional WebSocket support with Spring Websocket
• Spring Data JPA + Bean Validation
• Database updates with Liquibase
• Elasticsearch support if you want to have search capabilities on top of your database
• MongoDB support if you’d rather use a document-oriented NoSQL database instead of JPA
• Cassandra support if you’d rather use a column-oriented NoSQL database instead of JPA
• Kafka support if you want to use a publish-subscribe messaging system

Ready to go into production:

• Monitoring with Metrics
• Caching with ehcache (local cache) or hazelcast (distributed cache)
• Optional HTTP session clustering with hazelcast
• Optimized static resources (gzip filter, HTTP cache headers)
• Log management with Logback, configurable at runtime
• Connection pooling with HikariCP for optimum performance
• Builds a standard WAR file or an executable JAR file
• Support for all major cloud providers: AWS, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Kubernetes, Docker…