Exercise: Deploying TypeScript NestJS Application to SAP BTP

In this exercise, you will learn how to deploy the application to SAP BTP.

1. Checkout the branch tsnestjs_v4.0_deploytocf in SAP Business Application Studio

   1. Open SAP Business Application Studio.

   2. Run the following commands in the terminal.

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      cd ~/projects/cloud-sdk-learning-journey
      git checkout tsnestjs_v4.0_deploytocf

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2. Build and push the project to SAP BTP

   1. Build and push the application to SAP BTP by running the following commands in the terminal. Note: You will have to login to your SAP BTP Cloud Foundry account before running the cf commands

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      cd cloudsdk_bp_ts
      cf create-service destination lite mydestination
      cf create-service xsuaa application myxsuaa
      npm i
      npm run build
      cf push
      cf set-env cloudsdk_bp_ts DESTINATION_NAME bpdestination
      cf set-env cloudsdk_bp_ts APIKEY YOUR_APIKEY_GOES_HERE
      cf restage cloudsdk_bp_ts

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      You will have to login to your SAP BTP Cloud Foundry account before running the cf commands. Since the application depends on xsuaa and destination service, we need to create an instance of these services before deploying the application

   2. Verify that the application is successfully deployed in SAP BTP and the myxsuaa and mydestination services are bound to the application

      

3. Query the Business Partner API of SAP S/4HANA Cloud

   1. Find out the URL of the application. After successful completion of the command cf push, the URL is displayed on the screen

      

   2. Create a destination named bpdestination in the SAP BTP subaccount with the following values

      Field	Value
      Name	bpdestination
      Type	HTTP
      URL	https://sandbox.api.sap.com/s4hanacloud
      Proxy Type	Internet
      Authentication	NoAuthentication

      

   3. Open a new tab and browse to https://<application URL>/business-partner<application URL> is the URL you copied after executing the cf push command

   4. Verify that you are able to retrieve all the business partners

      

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      The destination values can be modified to connect to an actual SAP S/4HANA Cloud system. Also, the SAP API Business Hub does not support CREATE, UPDATE operations

4. Optional: Review code in the following source files

   1. Code walk-through

      File name	Comments on code changes
      manifest.yml	Configuration values are as follows... Provide basic application information like name, memory, timeout, path etc. Specify that the application depends on myxsuaa and mydestination services
      requests.http	Provides various HTTP requests that can be submitted to query the Business Partner API
      commands.txt	Provides various commands that can be run on the terminal

5. Optional: Manually create the project, without using the git branch, starting from the application you already created in the folder ~/projects/cloudsdk_bp_ts, within the previous exercise (Implementing CRUD operations in a TypeScript NestJS application).

   1. Choose File → Open Folder... and open projects/cloudsdk_bp_ts.

   2. Create or update the following files in the table below

      File name	Type	Contents
      business-partner.service.ts Path: ~/projects/cloudsdk_bp_ts/src/business-partner	Modified	Copy contents from here...
      manifest.yml Path: ~/projects/bpstandardvdm	Modified	Copy contents from here...
      package.json Path: ~/projects/bpstandardvdm	Modified	Edit the start:prod script to node dist/src/main

      

   3. Build and deploy the project in projects/cloudsdk_bp_ts in the same exact way you did in the previous steps with project in projects/cloud-sdk-learning-journey/cloudsdk_bp_ts.