Javascript web app and Java server, build all in Maven or use Grunt for web app?

Question

We are doing a web application with AngularJS and we like the idea of using Bower for Dependency Management and Grunt for building, running tests etc. (Yeoman)

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Answer 1

Then there's also the frontend-maven-plugin: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19600777/320399 It downloads Node and NPM for you (locally to your project), downloads Grunt via that NPM (run by that Node) and then runs Grunt (via that Node). It's self-bootstrapping, and you don't need Node installed on the machine to build the project. Just one command; mvn install.