Now that we have generated our application with JHipster, let's go through important pieces of the source code which have been created. Let's open our application in our favorite IDE or Editor.
Note
If you are using IntelliJ IDEA, you can execute idea .
in a terminal from the application folder to launch it. Otherwise, you can import the application as a new Gradle project using the menu option File
| New
| Project
from existing sources and select the project folder before selecting Gradle
from the options and click Next
and then Finish
. If you are using Eclipse, open the File
| Import...
dialog and select Gradle Project
in the list and follow the instructions.
The created application will have the following file structure:
As you can see, the root folder is quite busy with a few folders but a lot of configuration files. The most interesting among them is:
src
: This is the source folder which holds the main application source and the test source files.webpack
: This...