How put AngularJS + AngularJS UI (Utils + Bootstrap) into Grails?

Question

I need to put into Grails 2.4.4 this:

• AngularJS v1.3.15
• AngularJS UI Utils v0.2.3
• AngularJS UI Bootstrap v0.2.11
• Bootstrap CSS v3.3.4 (needed by AngularJS UI Bootstrap)
• JQuery? not sure if needed

I saw some plugins for Grails that add AngularJS but none that add AngularJS UI's. How to simply put this together?

Answer 1

If you are adopting AngularJS as your front-end single-page framework, and Grails as your REST API server, for the separation of concerns I would adopt a separate package manager like bower for managing the dependencies that are required on the client side and use Grails plugins only for managing server-side dependencies. At some point Grails might become a bottleneck for managing client-side plugins.

It does not necessarily imply that you cannot automate the process of dependency management by using task runners like Grunt as this interesting blog post points out.