Now that you have an idea about how to create an application and model the entities, we will start creating an application that shows the GDP of various countries with JHipster. We'll do this to showcase the ability to apply customization in auto-generated code by JHipster.
Refer to the Create an Application section to create a new application, naming it gdp
. We are going to build an application with similar functionality to that which we created with Spring Framework in Chapter 1, Creating an Application to List World Countries with their GDP. To show the GDP data of various countries, we took the reference of a sample country, city and country language data from MySQL databases (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html) and used a REST service to fetch the GDP data for a given country through the World Bank API (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/898614-aggregate-api-queries). We will use...