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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By : Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
Book Image

Full Stack Development with JHipster

By: Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen

Overview of this book

JHipster is a development platform to generate, develop, and deploy Spring Boot and Angular/React applications and Spring microservices. It provides you with a variety of tools that will help you quickly build modern web applications. This book will be your guide to building full stack applications with Spring and Angular using the JHipster tool set. You will begin by understanding what JHipster is and the various tools and technologies associated with it. You will learn the essentials of a full stack developer before getting hands-on and building a monolithic web application with JHipster. From here you will learn the JHipster Domain Language with entity modeling and entity creation using JDL and JDL studio. Moving on, you will be introduced to client side technologies such as Angular and Bootstrap and will delve into technologies such as Spring Security, Spring MVC, and Spring Data. You will learn to build and package apps for production with various deployment options such as Heroku and more. During the course of the book, you will be introduced to microservice server-side technologies and how to break your monolithic application with a database of your choice. Next, the book takes you through cloud deployment with microservices on Docker and Kubernetes. Going forward, you will learn to build your client side with React and master JHipster best practices. By the end of the book, you will be able to leverage the power of the best tools available to build modern web applications.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Setting up JHipster Registry locally


We have created our gateway and two microservice applications. The microservices have two different databases. So far, it has been easy and simple to create those with JHipster. 

JHipster provides two different options we have previously seen, Consul and JHipster Registry. For our use case, let's go with JHipster Registry. We have already learned about JHipster Registry in Chapter 8Introduction to Microservice Server-Side Technologies. Now, we will see how to set up and start it in our local development environment.

Now, these three services basically act as Eureka clients. We need a service registry that registers and deregisters the application as and when the application is started and stopped, respectively; this is JHipster Registry. The Eureka server (JHipster Registry server) acts as a master to all the Eureka clients.

Since JHipster Registry, as the name suggests, acts as a registry service, all microservice applications and the gateway will register...