Is it possible to include AngularJs to a project with Gradle

Question

I know that it is possible to include AngularJs with Maven into a Spring project for instance but how would one include it with Gradle?

Looking into gradle repositor

Answer 1

It may be late, but checkout https://github.com/gharia/spring-boot-angular. This is Spring Boot project with angular JS using asset-pipeline.

EDIT:

Using this gradle plugin, we can easily manage the client side dependencies, either of npm or bower or GIT. Please see the sample build.gradle below, in which I have included several dependencies of Angular in clientDependencies.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.3.3.RELEASE")
        classpath("org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:2.4.6")
        classpath("gradle.plugin.com.boxfuse.client:flyway-release:4.0")
    }
}

plugins {
    id 'com.craigburke.client-dependencies' version '1.0.0-RC2'
}

apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'war'

jar {
    baseName = 'boot-demo'
    version =  '0.1.0'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    mavenLocal()
    maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
    jcenter()
    maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot" }
}

sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

configurations {
    providedRuntime
}

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")

    compile("org.codehaus.groovy:groovy")
    testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
    testCompile("junit:junit")
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.3'
}

clientDependencies {


    npm {
        'angular'('1.5.x', into: 'angular') {
            include 'angular.js'
            include 'angular.min.js'
        }
        'angular-resource'('1.5.x', into: 'angular') {
            include 'angular-resource.js'
            include 'angular-resource.min.js'
        }
        'angular-mocks'('1.5.x', into: 'angular') {
            include 'angular-mocks.js'
            include 'angular-mocks.min.js'
        }
        'angular-route'('1.5.x', into: 'angular'){
            include 'angular-route.js'
            include 'angular-route.min.js'
        }
        'angular-animate'('1.5.x', into: 'angular') {
            include 'angular-animate.js'
            include 'angular-animate.min.js'
        }               

    }

}

assets {
  minifyJs = true
  minifyCss = true
}

Please see the following blog for details of architecture of sample Spring Boot Project with angular.:

https://ghariaonline.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/spring-boot-with-angular-using-gradle/