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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)

Contributing to JHipster

One of the best ways to learn JHipster and the technologies it supports is by contributing to JHipster directly. Refer to the contribution guide (https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details about setting up JHipster for development.

You can contribute to the project in many ways; some of them are as follows:

  • If you find a bug, enter an issue in the GitHub project (https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster), follow the guidelines in the issue template, run jhipster info, and provide steps to reproduce. You can also try to fix the issue yourself and submit a PR if you're successful.
  • Work on open issues and feature requests. This way you will learn the internals of JHipster and the technologies used along the way.
  • Answer JHipster related questions on Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow...