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Splitting (Angular) Frontend and (Spring) Backend in separate Git repositories

15 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

I recently stumbled upon the following question: When developing an Angular-App with a Spring Boot backend, should the Spring backend live in another Git repository than the Angular frontend? JHipster creates both in a common repository while many projects separate them.

Different sources suggest splitting if:

lessons learned in May 2018

03 Jun 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in May 2018:

When and how I use Timeboxing

21 May 2018
Posted by Steven

For the last two weeks, I’ve been testing a new tweak for my self-management: Timeboxing. This article explains the principle and summarizes my insights.

lessons learned in April 2018

01 May 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in April 2018:

Angular and Bootstrap: Use ng-bootstrap!

13 Apr 2018
Posted by Steven

In this article I wrote about my attempt to add a navbar to my Angular app and how I ended up with adding the full JQuery library to be able to use Bootstrap components. Already when releasing this article I knew that this is not the best way to get a working navbar. In this article, I explain why using ng-bootstrap seems to be the best way to add Bootstrap components to an Angular application.

Adding Bootstrap to an Angular application that got generated with JHipster

13 Apr 2018
Posted by Steven

Yesterday, I wanted to add a simple Bootstrap Navigation bar to my Angular application that I created with JHipster. Although this is a standard component, I had difficulties because I didn’t understand how Bootstrap, Angular and NodJS play together. This article explains how to “really” add Bootstrap to an Angular application that got created by JHipster.

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