Angular 2 boot by Arnaud Tournier

Angular 2 boot by Arnaud Tournier
GWTcon2016 - Firenze 14-15th November 2016

http://lteconsulting.fr/angular2boot-gwtcon2016/#/

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1. ANGULAR 2 BOOT
   Arnaud Tournier - @ltearno - LTE Consulting - GWT Con 2016 - Firenze
   

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2. ARNAUD TOURNIER
   LTE Consulting founder.
   Speaker: Java One, Devoxx France, GWT.create, GWTCon,
   JUGs, etc…
   Training: Java, C#, .net, Typescript, GWT, Angular 2, JavaEE,
   Spring, git…
   Email: ltearno@gmail.com
   Twitter: @ltearno
   Web: www.lteconsulting.fr
   Full stack (x86_64 to JavaScript)
   

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3. THIS PRESENTATION IS ONLINE!
   lteconsulting.fr/angular2boot-gwtcon2016
   works on your phone too ;)
   Demo code available at
   github.com/ltearno/tour-of-heroes
   github.com/ltearno/angular2boot-
   demos
   

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4. ANGULAR 2 BOOT?
   A new RIA paradigm for Java : programming Angular 2 with
   Java 8.
   The coolest Java 8 RIA framework in the place ;)
   lteconsulting.fr/angular2boot
   

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5. A MORE TECHNICAL TITLE…
   Integrating Angular 2 and GWT 2.8:
   problems and solutions…
   

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6. WHY DO THAT?
   I want to bene t from the best UI coding paradigms (Data
   binding, DI, … ).
   I want strong typing and powerful IDE tools.
   I want to be more productive.
   I want to be in phase with the future.
   (I may want to progressively migrate an existing app)
   

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7. THE PROBLEM
   Angular 2 natively supports Typescript, Javascript and Dart.
   But Java is not in the party, let’s remedy!
   

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8. THE RECIPE
   

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9. ANGULAR 2
   non invasive,
   modern architecture, simple and
   effective.
   

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10. GWT 2.8 CORE
    Java 8 (strong typing, lambdas, streams, … )
    JsInterop (easy integration with JS)
    SuperDevMode (incremental fast compile on reload)
    Optimized compilation for production (js size,
    ef ciency)
    

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11. JSR 269
    Java Annotation Processing API,
    Code generation integrated within Java
    compilation,
    Boilerplate code generation.
    

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12. SPRING BOOT
    Standalone server application (µ-service
    friendly),
    Easy to start with,
    Rich API,
    Note: Angular2Gwt works with any backend.
    

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13. ANGULAR
    Angular 1 was released in 2009.
    A full rewrite gave birth to Angular 2 in 2016.
    Much better and simpler architecture !
    

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14. ANGULAR 2 FUNDAMENTALS
    Components,
    Dependency Injection,
    Data binding and change
    detection.
    

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15. COMPONENTS
    Most basic building block of the application.
    A component is a class with:
    a view (an HTML template),
    and a model (data and
    methods).
    Interaction between view and model through data binding.
    

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16. COMPONENTS
    Each component is responsible for a part of the DOM tree.
    Components also form a tree.
    A bit like the GWT Widgets…
    Components interacts with each other through cleanly
    de ned ways.
    

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17. COMPONENTS TREE
    

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19. DEPENDENCY INJECTION
    Sharing services between components.
    Lifecycle and dependencies are managed by Angular.
    Each component has a Dependency Injector.
    Those also form a tree.
    

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20. DATA BINDING
    Angular uses Zone.js to track changes.
    Zones == asynchronous TLS.
    Preserve an execution context across asynchronous calls.
    (done by patching most of the browsers async functions)
    

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21. GWT IN ANGULAR2BOOT
    Only uses the compiler,
    JsInterop used a lot,
    No widgets, no User module (unless you want to mix legacy
    GWT and Angular).
    Because that’s how future will look like.
    

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22. JSR 269 - PLUGGABLE ANNOTATION
    PROCESSING API
    Shown here last year!
    Standard API for code generation in Java.
    (Used to generate the boiler plate code Angular requires.)
    Registered annotation processors receive the program’s AST
    and can then generate les (sources, byte-code or resources)
    which are part of the compilation.
    Integrated with the Java compiler.
    

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23. GOOD POINTS
    Generated code is visible and debuggable,
    You can reference the generated code in your code.
    No overhead at runtime.
    (Does not depend on byte code: GWT compatible)
    

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24. JUST ONE MORE THING
    A processor can break the compilation by outputting errors.
    It can also provide the user with tips by outputting warnings.
    

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25. ANGULAR2BOOT
    

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26. THE BASICS
    

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27. JAVA/JAVASCRIPT COMMUNICATION
    We need to make the java application communicate with the
    javascript Angular 2 runtime.
    JsInterop can do that.
    

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28. FEEDING ANGULAR WITH METADATAS
    Angular requires metadata on components (DI, routing,
    inputs/ouputs, … ) and uses ES7/Typescript decorators (ex
    @Component()) for this purpose.
    Those decorators alter component’s constructor at runtime
    so that less boilerplate code is required.
    

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29. IN JAVA?
    Annotations can play the role of decorators (ex
    @Component).
    Those are processed at compile time.
    And generate RTTI code for Angular.
    

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30. HOW?
    JSR-269 is used to generate RTTI,
    Use Angular JS API through JsInterop to provide the
    RTTI.
    Fetch Java class compiled JS constructor at runtime,
    Patch it with Angular required metadata,
    Provide the patched constructor function to Angular.
    

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31. TYPESCRIPT WRITTEN COMPONENT
    @Component( { selector: "my­hero­detail",
    templateUrl: "hero­detail.component.html",
    styleUrls: "hero­detail.component.css" } )
    export class HeroDetailComponent
    {
    @Input() hero = null;
    @Output() updated = new EventEmitter();
    HeroDetailComponent( private HeroService heroService ) {}
    ngOnInit() { ... }
    // ...
    }
    

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32. JAVA EQUIVALENT
    @Component( selector = "my­hero­detail",
    templateUrl = "hero­detail.component.html",
    styleUrls = "hero­detail.component.css" )
    @JsType
    public class HeroDetailComponent implements OnInit
    {
    @Input public Hero hero = null;
    @Output public EventEmitter updated = new EventEmitter<>();
    private HeroService heroService;
    public HeroDetailComponent( HeroService heroService )
    {
    this.heroService = heroService;
    }
    @Override
    public void ngOnInit() { ... }
    

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33. CONSISTENT SYNTAX
    The developper should be able to read JS documentation and
    know how to code in Java.
    In brief, we want syntax consistency.
    

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34. ARCHITECTURE
    

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35. NOW, THE PROBLEMS
    

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36. MODULE LOADING PROBLEM
    GWT is not SystemJS (ES7 modules) friendly.
    Need to generate a bundle with all Angular inside (you can
    choose/build your bundle depending on what you need).
    

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37. THE INSTANCEOF PROBLEM
    Angular checks at runtime that components are valid.
    With SuperDevMode, code is loaded in an external frame
    thus breaking instanceof operator.
    Few places needed to be patched (for dev mode only).
    

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38. BUILDING ANGULAR
    Angular 2 requires a strict environment to be built.
    Docker to the rescue!
    ⇒ From RC6 to 2.0 nal: 1 hour of work!
    

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39. LEGACY GWT WIDGETS INTEGRATION
    Works both ways :
    GWT widgets inside an Angular2Boot application:
    WidgetAdapterPanel.
    Angular 2 components in a legacy GWT application:
    AngularComponentContainerWidget.
    

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40. TESTING
    Unit tests,
    Integration
    tests.
    

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41. UNIT TESTS
    Dif cult to use the GWTTestCase facility
    HTMLUnit does not support Angular 2 runtime (not ES6
    compatible)
    More, GWT uses Jetty as a testing backend but we want to be
    able to use any backend (eg. SpringBoot).
    No real solution yet…
    

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42. INTEGRATION TESTS
    Using Selenium WebDriver and Spring integration testing
    facilities, it is done easily!
    

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43. FUTURE WORK, IDEAS
    

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44. PWA APPLICATION
    Thanks Mañolo, you inspired me ;)
    

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45. GENERATE UI CODE FROM MODEL OBJECTS
    Code generation is not easy in Javascript but really easy in
    Java.
    (see last year ).
    GWTCon talk on JSR-269
    

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46. GENERATE SERVICE ACCESS CODE FROM
    BACKEND INTERFACE
    Code generation, again…
    

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47. TS DEFINITIONS GENERATION
    Generate TS descriptions of Java components for easy
    integration of Java components into a TS Angular application.
    

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48. ANGULAR IN NASHORN FOR SERVER-SIDE
    RENDERING (ANGULAR UNIVERSAL)
    

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49. ANGULAR2BOOT WITH NATIVESCRIPT
    

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50. MODULE LOADING
    Not easy!
    Best is maybe to wait for GWT3 (J2Cl) which will be more
    ES7 module friendly.
    Will allow more AOT compilation optimizations (Angular AOT
    compiler may be able to work on the generated code).
    Better integration with JS build and packaging tools.
    

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51. CONCLUSIONS
    

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52. JAVASCRIPT AND JAVA COMMMUNITIES NEED
    TO EXCHANGE!
    WebPack inspired by GWT’s code splitting,
    Problems solved by Java since 20 years should inspire
    JS!
    Dynamism of the JS ecosystem should inpire Java!
    

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53. USE CASES
    100% Java applications (small or big),
    Service implementations in Java (strongly typed Web
    service interfacing),
    JS, Typescript and Java integration,
    Would t well with JBoss Forge and JHipster…
    

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54. HOW COOL IS THAT?
    Tested on few projects, was very impressive! Work ow is
    really comfortable.
    Dead simple bootstrapping (only one maven dep, simpler
    than Angular 2 itself!).
    GWT compilation without User module (Widgets) is dead
    fast.
    Gives GWT a second youth! (only uses the core).
    Optimizations done by GWT are still very powerful: fast
    application, small download.
    

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55. EASY TO TRY
    mvn archetype:generate \
    ­DarchetypeGroupId=fr.lteconsulting \
    ­DarchetypeArtifactId=angular2­gwt.archetype \
    ­DarchetypeVersion=1.6
    mvn clean install # produces an executable fat jar
    java ­jar target/YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID.jar
    

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56. COMPILE ON RELOAD
    # Backend
    mvn spring­boot:run
    # Frontend
    mvn gwt:run­codeserver
    

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57. DEMO
    

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58. THANKS, IT WAS A PLEASURE!
    Maybe you have questions?
    Try it!
    lteconsulting.fr/angular2boot
    Twitter: @ltearno
    

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