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Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

By : Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
Book Image

Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

By: Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen

Overview of this book

JHipster is an open source development platform that allows you to easily create web apps and microservices from scratch without spending time on wiring and integrating different technologies. Updated to include JHipster 6, Java 11, Spring Boot 2.1, Vue.js, and Istio, this second edition of Full Stack Development with JHipster will help you build full stack applications and microservices seamlessly. You'll start by understanding JHipster and its associated tools, along with the essentials of full stack development, before building a monolithic web app. You'll then learn the JHipster Domain Language (JDL) with entity modeling using JDL-Studio. With this book, you'll create production-ready web apps using Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Angular, and Bootstrap, and run tests and set up continuous integration pipelines with Jenkins. As you advance, you'll learn how to convert your monoliths to microservices and how to package your application for production with various deployment options, including Heroku and Google Cloud. You'll also learn about Docker and Kubernetes, along with an introduction to the Istio service mesh. Finally, you'll build your client-side with React and Vue.js and discover JHipster's best practices. By the end of the book, you'll be able to leverage the best tools available to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with the JHipster Platform
4
Section 2: Building and Customizing Web Applications with JHipster
8
Section 3: Continuous Integration and Testing
11
Section 4: Converting Monoliths to Microservice Architecture
15
Section 5: Deployment of Microservices
18
Section 6: React and Vue.js for the Client Side

Starting the application

Now let's start the application and view the output. There are multiple ways to run the application:

  • By using the Spring Boot Gradle task from the Terminal/command line
  • By executing the main Java class, src/main/java/com/mycompany/store/StoreApp.java, from an IDE
  • By executing the packaged application file using the java -jar command

Let's start the application using the Gradle task. If you want to run the application directly in the IDE, just open the main app file that we mentioned earlier (StoreApp.java), right-click it, and choose Run 'StoreApp'.

To start the application via Gradle, open a Terminal/command line and navigate to the application folder. Then, execute the Gradle command as follows (if you are on Windows, execute gradlew.bat). This will trigger the default task, that is, bootRun:

> cd online-store
> ./gradlew
Running...