React.js and Spring Data REST using Gradle

This is a quasi-fork of the 'basic' branch GitHub repo for the React.js and Spring Data REST tutorial leveraging gradle instead of Maven. Basically I wanted to leverage the tutorial along with Webpack via a gradle-based build.

• React.js and Spring Data REST is the source tutorial for this code.

• tut-react-and-spring-data-rest - The branch from original repo from which this code has been based/forked from

You run the example the same when you’d run any gradle application that uses Spring Boot:

./gradlew build bootRun

Testing your build With the app running you can make sure your RESTful endpoint is up and running using cURL or any other tool you’d like.

$ curl localhost:8080/api
{
  "_links" : {
    "employees" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/employees"
    },
    "profile" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/profile"
    }
  }
}

And like in the original tutorial you can add records to your data with the API provided by Spring data REST

$ curl -X POST localhost:8080/api/employees -d "{\"firstName\": \"Aragorn II\", \"lastName\": \"son of Arathorn\", \"description\": \"King Elessar Telcontar\"}" -H "Content-Type:application/json"

{
  "firstName" : "Aragorn II",
  "lastName" : "son of Arathorn",
  "description" : "King Elessar Telcontar",
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/employees/4"
    },
    "employee" : {
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/api/employees/4"
    }
  }
}

If you want to clean everything out and reset the build back to when you first cloned the repo just use:

./gradlew cleanAll