Angular2 with maven project

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I have a question, I want to use angular 2 in maven project, and as you now the modules should download with ( npm install or ng new .. (cli) ).

The problem is if I generate the war file with all this modules, it will be very large because of the presence of all the nodejs modules.

In one of Github example they install this modules with ( npm install ) and finally goes to the home directory and run spring-boot:run I want directly deploy my war file, so my question is : i should generate the war file with the all the modules and dependencies of nodejs or there is another solution ?

you should only include dependencies that you need to execute, and exclude the rest via maven config. — ystan-, Oct 03 '16 at 11:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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Three ways:

add all node_modules dependencies in to your version control, so source is always there, or copy necessary js libraries manually in specific source folder, like angular.min.js and so on (if your node.js is not available on your server, by security reason)
create execution goal inside pom.xml, something like How to deploy a node.js app with maven?
use https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin and check existing examples, I am sure your case is straight forward

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Oct 03 '16 at 11:16

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Thanks, glad to know all the ways, i'll try using the frontend plugin, i think it's what i need. – Mouloudi Hicham Oct 03 '16 at 11:22
'Like' this answer :) – Dmitri Algazin Oct 03 '16 at 11:57
@MouloudiHicham did it work ? any idea how to do it in spring boot ? – Jigar Shah Mar 31 '17 at 17:41
never used spring boot, but what different? this topic is about placing frontend-maven-plugin inside maven pom.xml and do npm magic for you during creating war file – Dmitri Algazin Apr 02 '17 at 21:10

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