Run Spring4MVC with Angular 2 on a single server

Question

I am new to angular2, I want to know what is the possible file structure for SpringMVC4 with angular 2?

As shown in image, it will work for Angular 1.x but

Answer 1

You can automate your solution - just use frontend-maven-plugin (with which you can install nodejs and build the angular project) and maven-resources-plugin to copy the contents of /angular/dist/ directory into root of .war file (see also this article)

      org.apache.maven.plugins
      maven-resources-plugin
      3.0.2
      
        
          default-copy-resources
          process-resources
          
            copy-resources
          
          
            true
            ${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/
            
              
                ${project.basedir}/angular/dist
              
            
          
        
      

And then you can use hot reload feature (while developing) on nodejs server, runned by ng serve with Angular CLI tool.