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Full Stack Development with JHipster

By : Deepu K Sasidharan, Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
Book Image

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

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Let's start the application to view the generated pages. In the Terminal, execute the Gradle command the follows:

> ./gradlew

This will start the server in development mode locally. Since the import-jdl step already compiled the frontend code, we don't have to run yarn start just to see the new pages, but please note that for further development it is better to use yarn start along with the preceding command. If you had the server already running while generating the entities, then no need to run this command, instead just compile the source again using the ./gradlew compileJava command. Using your IDE and Spring devtools will hot reload the application for you. If you had yarn start running then a hot reload will take place on the client side as well, otherwise, it will just refresh the page. We will see more about hot reloading in the next chapter.

Once you see the following message, the server is ready and we can navigate to the URL http://localhost:8080 in our favorite...