This folder contains the source code for the Taco Cloud sample from Spring in Action, 5th edition, as presented in Chapter 6.

There may be portions of the application that are not fully functional (yet), but the code that is relevant to chapter 6 should be complete and ready to run.

It’s also important to note that example code tends to evolve throughout the course of a chapter. Moreover, there are often many different variants of a given piece of code presented. The sample code given here may only represent one such variant or evolution.

Starting with Chapter 6, Taco Cloud is broken into a multi-module Maven project. To build the full project, use mvnw (the Maven wrapper) at the command line like this:

The Maven build will also build the Angular client code and package it along with the Spring code. To do that, you’ll need to make sure that you have Node and the Angular CLI installed before building the project. (See https://cli.angular.io/ for details.)

Once the project is built, you can run the executable JAR file from the tacos project:

Once the application has started, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080 to see the Taco Cloud home page.

As mentioned above, not all of the Taco Cloud application is fully functional (yet). But the components that pertain to the topic of Chapter 6, defining a REST API, should be in place.

From the home page, you should be able to view some recently created tacos by clicking on "Latest designs" link at the top. The "Specials" and "Locations" links will navigate to their respective pages, but those pages are (for now) empty.

Click the "DESIGN A TACO" link to create a taco and ultimately create an order. You can view the contents of your shopping cart by clicking on the cart/price at the top right.

The multi-module Maven project is made up of the following modules:

• tacocloud-api : The REST API

• tacocloud-data : The persistence module

• tacocloud-domain : The domain types

• tacocloud-security : The security module (TODO: Not fully functional yet.)

• tacocloud-ui : A Typescript Angular UI

• tacocloud-web : The web module (largely leftovers from previous chapters. TODO: Clean up and remove.)

• tacos : The main module that pulls the other modules together and provides the Spring Boot main class.