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WebJar

What is a WebJar?

WebJars are client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files.

• Explicitly and easily manage the client-side dependencies in JVM-based web applications
• Use JVM-based build tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle, sbt, …) to download your client-side dependencies
• Know which client-side dependencies you are using
• Transitive dependencies are automatically resolved and optionally loaded via RequireJS
• Deployed on Maven Central

Use a WebJar with Maven

1. Visit https://www.webjars.org
2. Enter the package name into search
3. Select Maven
4. Copy the example snippet

Use a WebJar with Gradle

1. Visit https://www.webjars.org
2. Enter the package name into search
3. Select Gradle
4. Copy the example snippet

Create a WebJar from NPM

1. Visit https://www.webjars.org
2. Click add a WebJar
3. Select a NPM package to add
   • Select type NPM
   • Choose the package name
   • Choose the version to add
4. Click Deploy!

Create a WebJar from a local directory

1. Build the project (usually npm run build)
2. Build a jar of the project zip project.jar .
3. Get the absolute path to the current folder pwd
4. Goto the maven project
5. mvn install:install-file ${path from step 3}/project.jar

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