Before we start generating the application, we need to prepare our workspace as this workspace will be used throughout this book, and you will be creating many Git branches on this workspace as we proceed.
Note
Visit http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/ for a quick reference guide on Git commands.
Let's create a new folder for the workspace. Create a folder called e-commerce-app and from the terminal, navigate to the folder:
> mkdir e-commerce-app > cd e-commerce-app
Now, create a new folder for our application; let's call it online-store and navigate to it:
> mkdir online-store
> cd online-storeNow, we are ready to invoke JHipster. Let's first make sure everything is ready by running the jhipster --version command. It should print a globally installed JHipster version, otherwise you'll need to follow the instructions from the previous chapter to set it up.