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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By : Sasidharan, Nellaiyapen
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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By: Sasidharan, 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 (16 chapters)

Generating docker-compose files for microservices

There are many docker-compose files and maintaining them is hard. Thankfully, JHipster has a docker-compose sub generator bundled with it. The Docker-compose sub generator helps you to organize all your application's Dockerfiles together. It creates a single Dockerfile that refers to the application's Dockerfiles. 

Let's go to the base folder and create a folder and name it docker-compose:

> mkdir docker-compose && cd docker-compose

Once inside the docker-compose folder, we can run the following command:

 jhipster docker-compose 

This will generate the Dockerfiles.

As usual, it will ask us a series of questions, before generating the files:

At first, it asks which type of application we would like to deploy. We will select the microservice...