Summary

In this chapter, you learned that the frontend-maven-plugin and antrun-maven-plugin plugins can help you package your web client and Spring Boot application as one executable JAR file to make the deployment easy. You also learned how to run a JAR file on your local machine that helps you prepare your application for deployment.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to use GitHub Actions to prepare the applications for deployment. You will also learn how to use Heroku to create an instance of the database for the application and then deploy the application to Heroku.