README.md

event-ticketing-app-quarkus

Building an Event Ticketing App with Quarkus & ButterCMS

This is a demo project that integrates ButterCMS with Quarkus. It mimics a ticketing platform on which clients can book tickets for events added by editor through Butter.

The building process is documented in the related blog post.

Important Notice

This project was created as an example use case of ButterCMS in conjunction with a blog article, Building an Event Ticketing App with Quarkus & ButterCMS, and will not be actively maintained.

If you’re interested in exploring the best, most up-to-date way to integrate Butter into Java frameworks like Quarkus, you can check out the following resources:

Starter Projects

The following turn-key starters are fully integrated with dynamic sample content from your ButterCMS account, including main menu, pages, blog posts, categories, and tags, all with a beautiful, custom theme with already-implemented search functionality. All of the included sample content is automatically created in your account dashboard when you sign up for a free trial of ButterCMS.

• Java Starter
• Angular Starter
• React Starter
• Vue.js Starter
• Or see a list of all our currently-maintained starters. (Over a dozen and counting!)

Other Resources

• Check out the official ButterCMS Docs
• Check out the official ButterCMS API docs

Architecture

The system is organised around Butter and the service that allows clients to book tickets:

Running the application in dev mode

You can run your application in dev mode that enables live coding using:

./mvnw compile quarkus:dev

NOTE: Quarkus now ships with a Dev UI, which is available in dev mode only at http://localhost:8080/q/dev/.

Packaging and running the application

The application can be packaged using:

./mvnw package

It produces the quarkus-run.jar file in the target/quarkus-app/ directory. Be aware that it’s not an über-jar as the dependencies are copied into the target/quarkus-app/lib/ directory.

The application is now runnable using java -jar target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar.

If you want to build an über-jar, execute the following command:

./mvnw package -Dquarkus.package.type=uber-jar

The application, packaged as an über-jar, is now runnable using java -jar target/*-runner.jar.

Creating a native executable

You can create a native executable using:

./mvnw package -Pnative

Or, if you don't have GraalVM installed, you can run the native executable build in a container using:

./mvnw package -Pnative -Dquarkus.native.container-build=true

You can then execute your native executable with: ./target/ticket-service-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner

If you want to learn more about building native executables, please consult https://quarkus.io/guides/maven-tooling.