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Is possible to combine rest-api and angular profiles on Grails?

I'm going to start a new project that has two front ends, a mobile APP and a Web Application.

I was thinking about creating a "rest-api" grails application and consume this "api" from the mobile apps.

But, for the WebApp, is it possible to create a new "angular" Grails app that uses as model the previously generated "rest-api" Grails application and ovoids me to "re-implement the wheel (model)"?

Any articles/documentation how that could be accomplish?

Thanks in advance.

JD Evora

Solution

  • You can use the domain you already have in the new rest api, nothing changes. You may want to add the @Resource annotations.

    If there is another app that uses this same domain, I would put in a plugin(as @Joshua suggested), we currently do it for clients which have both admin/cms and final user applications.

    In our company,we are currently developing 3 projects with an idea I believe will fit well to your needs, or may help someone else who is starting a similar project

    We organized the apps this way:

    • We've created a grails app with rest-api profile
    • We've created a grunt/bower/npm project(you could use yoo angular generator, but It had more than we needed)
    • We've created an android and and ios apps

    Advantages we've seen:

    • The angular application calls the same methods as the mobile apps, there is only one controller, one service, one grails app

    • The web apps is pure JS and CSS and runs smoothly in the serve(npm install serve)

    • You can deploy the web app in any CDN like Amazon Cloud Front and be able to handle a big demand, and you can deploy it quickly

    Just in case you don't know, but with grunt and bower you can replace assets pipeline automation.

    Hope it helps you!