Summary
In this chapter, we started by looking at how to create web projects with NetBeans and saw the differences between NetBeans and Maven web applications. We saw how easy it is to add different components to web applications using NetBeans, and how we can easily change a web project's run options, including its context path.
After looking at Java EE web applications, we looked at creating Spring Web MVC applications, and saw how we can quickly create Spring Boot applications and start developing them within NetBeans using Spring Initializr.
Finally, we looked at some of the tools NetBeans offers for styling via CSS and CSS preprocessors. We also learned to add different JavaScript frameworks into our applications.
In the next chapter, we'll continue looking at web applications, but our focus will move onto web services, where we'll see how to create and consume web services from within NetBeans.
