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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)

CI/CD tools


JHipster provides excellent support for the well-known CI/CD tools. Let's take a look at the options available first.

Jenkins

Jenkins (https://jenkins.io/) is one of the leading CI/CD tools out there. It is free and open source. It is an automation server written in Java and supports integration with various version control tools, such as Git, CVS, SVN, and so on. Jenkins has a huge plugin ecosystem and this makes it one of the most flexible platforms. Jenkins can be used for building projects, running automated tests, automating deployment, and so on. It is available as an executable binary for various platforms and as Docker images. Blue Ocean is the latest UI interface for Jenkins giving it a much-needed breath of fresh air. Jenkins has the concept of a pipeline, achieved by using multiple plugins and a Groovy DSL to define the CI/CD pipeline. Jenkins pipeline plugins provide a comprehensive DSL-based configuration that can be defined in a file called a Jenkinsfile.

Travis CI...