This has really been a great journey, exploring a new framework for building a powerful web application. JHipster is a really great tool for crafting a modern and production-ready application in no time. With lots of things happening automatically, JHipster not only makes a developer's job easier, but also improves the overall project delivery schedule.
At the beginning of this chapter, we explored the basics of JHipster as a framework, along with an installation guide. Moving forward, you learned how JHipster generates application code with a question-and-answer approach. It uses another tool, called Yeoman, to generate application code.
Implementing domain objects as entities and supporting complete CRUD operations is the most important part of any application. In the next step, we learned how JHipster provides support for modeling domain objects through entity generation. Entity generation can be done with three options: the classic Yeoman-based option, the UML approach, and by...