Aren't You bored of downloading JQuery fro your web applications? In this presentation (and related sample project) I will show how to automate most of the task needed for the front-end part of a Java web application.

1. Aren't You bored of downloading Jquery?
(“Front-end tools in Java webapps”)
Lucio Benfante
(lucio@benfante.com)

2. Build process
● From sources to final artifacts (or even to deploy)
● Standard/known structure
● Dependency management
● Platform independent
● IDE independent
● Repeatable
● Automatic (for Continuous Integration)

3. (Java) build tools
Make
Ant
Maven
Gradle

4. Front-end tools

5. Briefly... (!)
● Node.js: the base Javascript platform
● Npm: package manager for Node.js
● Bower: package manager for front-end artifacts
● Gulp: a streaming bulding system
● Grunt: another building system (task oriented)
● Karma: test executor
● ...

6. How to Maven?
https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin

7. Example Project
https://github.com/benfante/FrontendToolsExample

8. References (1)
https://www.manning.com/books/front-end-tooling-with-gulp-bower-and-
yeoman

9. References (2)
● https://nodejs.org
● https://bower.io/
● http://gulpjs.com/
● https://karma-runner.github.io
● http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/

10. References (2)
● https://nodejs.org
● https://bower.io/
● http://gulpjs.com/
● https://karma-runner.github.io
● http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/