Currently I am busy building a Proof of Concept at my customer.
We are using Springboot for the Backend services, which get data from Tridion and store data in a Oracle database..
The Front end is build with Angular. We started with version 2 with Grunt as build tool, but quickly we changed it to Angular 4 with Webpack.
The overall feeling of Angular 4 and Webpack was much better. Another plus was the smaller footprint.
Base64
Last request was to store some information in Cookie. Overall no rocket science, but to encode the value and afterwards decode to reuse it was even more easy, thanks to build in base64 encode/decode functions.
btoa() and atop() are very powerful
let encodedCookie:string = boa("Password");
let cookie:string = atop("cGFzc3dvcmQ=");
Happy coding