Angular 2 and Spring Boot - Deploy to War

Question

Let me just start off by saying, I am new to Maven / Spring and am having a hard time figuring out what to do when my directory does not follow the preferred Maven structure.

Answer 1

After doing a lot of searching, I came across the Maven War Plugin. This allowed me to pull in the necessary frontend files to the backend for the successful creation of my WAR file. The changes that need to be made are as follows:

Backend pom.xml - after the description tags add:

war

Then, inside the build tags, inside plugins add this plugin:

  
    maven-war-plugin
    
      
        
          ../frontend/target/frontend
        
      
    
  

Other than that, you can keep the existing pom.xml's the same as only the backend pom.xml needs include war packaging. It ended up being a rather simple answer.

Also need to set the base-href in the package.json. Note "build":

"scripts": {
"ng": "ng",
"start": "ng serve --proxy-config proxy.conf.json",
"test": "ng test",
"lint": "ng lint",
"e2e": "ng e2e",
"build": "ng build --base-href=\"./\""
},