SpringBoot Project loading AngularJS content from different folder structure

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I have a UI project structure which uses AngularJS, Bootstrap, and all other 3rd party libraries. Below is the structure:

Here 'ui' is the root folder and 'app' is the immediate child of 'ui'. 'App' has 'app/dependencies' for all 3rd party libraries and 'app/modules' for all application AngularJS modules. 'App/index.html' is the main page of the application where all the modules will be rendered accordingly. Each JavaScript is loaded using 'requirejs' configuration and this whole setup is tested with Grunt/Livereload.

The Requirement is, I would like to place this entire 'ui/app' structure in a SpringBoot appication and serve it from there.

I have tried this but spring boot is always looking into the 'template' and 'static' directory. My directory structure and the relative dependencies in the HTML are not loading.

Stephane Nicoll · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-28 07:53:37Z

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You can teach Spring Boot to look in other locations, check the documentation for more details

If I understood your structure, the following should work:

spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/ui/app/

If you want to still serve stuff from staticor public, you'll have to reference those again, something like

spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/ui/app/,classpath:/static/,classpath:/public/

answered Dec 28, 2015 at 7:53

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Mahesh N Over a year ago

I have tried that suggestion by placing the above structure in the src/main/resource and add the spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/ui/app/

Mahesh N Over a year ago

As per above suggestion, Placed the structure in the src/main/resource & added the config. I am getting error: Caused by: org.springframework.beans.NotWritablePropertyException: Invalid property 'static-locations' of bean class [org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.ResourceProperties]: Bean property 'static-locations' is not writable or has an invalid setter method. Does the parameter type of the setter match the return type of the getter?

Stephane Nicoll Over a year ago

It's a 1.3 feature. You're probably using 1.2. There should be a way to make that work in 1.2 with a bit of extra config though.

Mahesh N Over a year ago

Yes I am using 1.2.7.RELEASE. Then let me try with 1.3 and get back to you. Thank you for helping me.

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