# Technologies

# Frontend

Make sure you have the following software installed on your development machine:

Node.js v16 and NPM v8

The frontend is developed with [Angular][angular], relies on the Angular CLI and is written in Typescript. Styling in ALEX is done with [Bootstrap v4][bootstrap] and SASS stylesheets. All frontend files can be found in frontend/src/main/javascript.

# Backend

Make sure you have the following software installed on your development machine:

Java JDK 17
Maven 3.8.*

# Maven goals

Make sure you mvn installed ALEX once before executing any of the following commands.

Command	Description
`mvn test`	Execute all backend unit tests.
`mvn verify`	Execute all backend unit and integration tests.
`mvn checkstyle:check -Pcode-analysis`	Check if the code style is according to the specifications.
`mvn spotbugs:check -Pcode-analysis`	Execute static code analysis with Spotbugs.
`mvn spring-boot:run`	Start the REST API of ALEX.

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