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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By : Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By: Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar 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 (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction to JDL


JDL (http://www.jhipster.tech/jdl/) is used to create the domain model for a JHipster application. It provides a simple and user-friendly DSL to describe the entities and their relationships (for SQL databases only).

JDL is the recommended way to create entities for an application and can replace the entity generator provided by JHipster, which can be difficult to use when creating a lot of entities. The JDL is normally written in one or more files with a .jh extension.

Visit http://www.jhipster.tech/jdl/ for complete documentation on JDL.

Note

If you prefer to work with UML and UML modeling tools, then check out JHipster-UML (http://www.jhipster.tech/jhipster-uml/), a tool that can create entities from popular UML tools.

DSL grammar for JDL

Now, let's see the JDL grammar. At the time of writing, JDL supports generating complete entity models with relationships and options such as DTO, service layer, and so on. The grammar can be broken down into the following:

  • Entity declaration...