Spring boot and react running on tomcat

Question

I am developing Spring boot application with react client using gradle. I am new to all these technologies. Currently I am able to create war file which includes following folders:

META-INF
public (contains build of client part - index.html, index.js and other .js scripts)
WEB-INF (contains compiled spring boot backend app)

Currently, after deploying war to tomcat, I am able to access client static content on http://localhost:8080/app-name/public/. Also I am able to access routes defined in spring controllers on http:// localhost:8080/app-name/route (these are just for testing purposes, I want this commands to be accessed only through REST calls from client).

Now, what I want is make that static client content available under route http://localhost:8080/app-name/xxx-yyy/public

I don't know what is right way to do this (actually, only way I know is create xxx-yyy subfolder on tomcat a put public folder inside it. I think this is bad approach). Other way would be somehow forward from spring controller but I am not able to do that.

It is possible that this is bad concept and I should make it other way. I would be glad for any suggestion.

Thank you

Are you using Spring Boot? Because with Spring Boot the Tomcat server is embedded into a JAR file, so, you won't be working with WARs. — andresscode
– andresscode, Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 10:46
basically you want to bind your controller actions with reactjs? — Vikram Saini
– Vikram Saini, Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 11:09
@lbpeppers I am not using the embedded Tomcat server. My company wants deploy it on their own tomcat in docker. So I have to work with WAR. — Filip Velemínský
– Filip Velemínský, Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 11:28
@VikramSaini Yes, if it is possible with my current structure of WAR file (or suggestion what should in it) — Filip Velemínský
– Filip Velemínský, Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 11:29
i can help you with JAR and not with WAR.why are you working with WAR's? — Vikram Saini
– Vikram Saini, Commented Jun 10, 2017 at 12:47

Chris B · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-10 07:05:47Z

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I guess you are using create-react-app.

For production deployment, the React application consists of static files only. These files are generated with create-react-app : npm run build. Cf. the official docs about deployment.

So you just have to serve these static files in your Spring Boot app, for instance in the folder src/main/resources/static. Here is the documentation about static content in Spring Boot.

At the end, Tomcat will run dynamic REST web services (for instance at /api) and React files.

Note: if you are using Spring Security, make sure that React files such as index.html are publicly available.

answered Jul 10, 2017 at 7:05

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