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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

Customization and Further Development

In the previous chapter, we saw how to use the JHipster Domain Language (JDL) to model and generate our domain model. We also learned about entity relationships and the import-jdl sub-generator. In this chapter, we will see how we can further customize and add business logic to the generated online-store application to suit our needs. We will learn about the following:

  • Live reload with Spring DevTools and BrowserSync
  • Customizing the Angular frontend for an entity
  • Editing an entity that was created using the JHipster entity generator
  • Changing the look and feel of the application using a Bootstrap theme
  • Adding a new i18n language using the JHipster language generator
  • Customizing the generated REST API to add additional role-based authorization with Spring Security
  • Creating new Spring Data JPA queries and methods

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