JHipster is a

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application generator used to quickly develop modern

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s and Microservices using Angular or

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and the

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Overview

JHipster provides tools to generate a project with a Java stack on the server side (using Spring Boot) and a responsive Web front-end on the client side (with Angular/ReactJs and Bootstrap). It can also create microservice stack with support for Netflix OSS, Docker and Kubernetes. The term 'JHipster' comes from 'Java Hipster', as its initial goal was to use all the modern and 'hype' tools available at the time. Today, it has reached a more enterprise goal, with a strong focus on developer productivity, tooling and quality.

Major functionalities

* Generate full stack applications and microservices, with many options * Generate CRUD entities, directly or by

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* Database migrations with Liquibase * NoSQL databases support (

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) *

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support * Websockets support * Automatic deployment to CloudFoundry,

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, AWS

Technology stack

On the client side: *

HTML5 Boilerplate HTML5 Boilerplate is an HTML, CSS and JavaScript template (or boilerplate) for creating HTML5 HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and final major HTML version that is a ...

Twitter Bootstrap Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains HTML, CSS and (optionally) JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other ...

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* Angular 2+ *

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* Full internationalization support with Angular Translate * Optional Compass / Sass support for CSS design * Optional WebSocket support with Spring Websocket On the server side: * Spring Boot * Spring Security (including Social Logins) * Spring MVC REST + Jackson * Monitoring with Metrics * Optional WebSocket support with Spring Websocket * Spring Data JPA + Bean Validation * Database updates with Liquibase *

support *

support Out-of-the-box auto-configured tooling: * Yeoman * Webpack or Gulp.js * BrowserSync * Maven or Gradle * Editor for Datamodeling (visual and textual)

Books

A JHipster mini book is written by Matt Raible, the author of

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. A book on "Full stack development with JHipster" is written by Deepu K Sasidharan, the co-lead of JHipster and Sendil Kumar N, a core team member of JHipster. Reviewed by Julien Dubois and Antonio Goncalves.

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