danveloper/aps — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-08-10 · repo last pushed 2015-07-15
Use as a starting template to build a Groovy-backed web app with an AngularJS front end.
Learn how Groovy and AngularJS are wired together in a simple project.
Run a local web server quickly to experiment with Groovy web development.
| danveloper/aps | allquixotic/grenjincalendar | fieldju/dependency-graph-demo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Groovy | Groovy | Groovy |
| Last pushed | 2015-07-15 | 2021-05-03 | 2015-07-10 |
| Maintenance | Dormant | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | hard | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires Gradle to be available, but the project includes a Gradle wrapper so no separate install is needed.
This project, called aps, is a minimal web application that you can run locally and view in your browser. The README provides almost no descriptive text, but the two commands shown tell the basic story: running the project starts a local web server, and visiting the displayed URL in your browser loads a working page. Under the hood, the project is written in Groovy and uses Gradle (a common build tool) to launch. The command ./gradlew run kicks off the server, and pointing your browser to localhost on port 5050 displays the app. The README hints that the front end uses AngularJS, identified by an ng-app attribute in the page source, a convention from that framework. Who would use this and why is less clear from the available documentation. It could serve as a starting template for someone wanting to build a simple Groovy-backed web app with an AngularJS front end, or as a learning reference for seeing the two wired together. Beyond that, the README doesn't go into detail about the intended audience or use case. Notably, the documentation is sparse to the point of being almost purely instructional, two commands and a hint to inspect the source. There's no explanation of features, architecture decisions, or setup requirements beyond having Gradle available. Anyone interested in understanding what the app actually does beyond loading a page would need to explore the source code directly.
A minimal local web app written in Groovy using Gradle, with an AngularJS front end. Run it with ./gradlew run and view it at localhost:5050.
Mainly Groovy. The stack also includes Groovy, Gradle, AngularJS.
Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2015-07-15).
No license information is provided in this repository.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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