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Thats just a load of CRUD
CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete which are probably the most basic of things that you can do to a piece of data. Spring Boot gives you a very easy way to setup an interface between your...
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Extending Your Entity Repositories
Now that the basic CRUD interface is working it would be nice if we could extend the interface to make it even more useful. What if we wanted to return a list of all the locations in a particular state...
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Controlling The Frontend
Before we can start building our frontend we need to tell our Spring Boot application how to handle the incoming requests and what html page to display. This is done using Spring MVC which we added...
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Starting The Frontend
For the frontend we are going to be using Thymeleaf. When you add Thymeleaf to your project using the spring-boot-thymeleaf-starter you will get support for both Thymeleaf V2.x and Thymeleaf V3.x. By...
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Adding Bootstrap To The Frontend
Web applications need more than just html. You also need CSS, JavaScript, Images maybe even Fonts. All of these can be added to the resources/static folder in your SpringBoot application. Here I have...
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Adding Some Demo Data
Before we can start displaying data in our application we need to add some demo data. You could point the data source to be an external persistent data source that contains test data instead of using...
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Checking Your Demo Data
Now that we have the demo data how do we know that it is actually working and getting in to the database. It would be rather pointless trying to add the data to the UI if there is no data to add. If...
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Adding Locations Data To The UI
Now that we have our demo data and we have confirmed that it exists when we start the application it is time to add it to the Thymeleaf based UI. First we need to add it to the data model that is used...
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Adding The People By Location Controller
Now that we have the main landing page of the application created it is time to build our next page. To start the process of I have gone to VSTS and dragged the ‘See All Staff In A Single Location’...
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Building the Release Definition
The Release definition in VSTS allows you to define the steps needed to be taken to deploy a build of your application to your deployment environments. On the Releases tab of your project you click on...
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