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Simple Page Application Example with API REST backend

Information

Frameworks used in backend

• Maven, for project scaffolding
• ActiveJDBC, for ORM
• SQLite3, as DB for simplicity
• SparkJava, for REST framework

Framework used in frontend

• Yeoman/webapp-generator for scaffolding
• Gulp, for tasks automation
• Browserify
• Handlebars, for template rendering
• Bootstrap v3
• Page.js for routing

Set it up

Start Backend

1. cd backend
2. mvn clean install
3. mvn dependency:copy-dependencies
4. ./run.sh

Start Frontend

1. cd ../frontend 1.2 npm install --global gulp-cli bower (if not installed yet)
2. npm install
3. bower install
4. gulp serve