Installing Jhipster

npm install -g generator-jhipster

jhipster --version

Generating an app

mkdir myPOC && cd myPOC

jhipster

code .

npm install

Hints on available spring boot options can be displayed with:

mvn spring-boot:help

The application can be started with the dev profile with:

mvn spring-boot:build-info

followed with:

mvn spring-boot:run

As an alternative to all of the mvn spring-boot commands above, the user may just run the mvnw available in the application root:

./mvnw

npm start

To generate entities according to the application requirements, open a text editor like gedit and code a jdl language snipet with a .jh extension describing the different entities and their relationships:

gedit src/main/resources/entities.jh &

Sample jh files with entities are available for instance in the jdl-samples jhipster project on github. Skip the application { ... } statement in your snippet as your application options are already set and you only want to describe your entities at this stage. Once your entities.jh file is ready, go ahead and generate the entities with:

jhipster import-jdl src/main/resources/entities.jh

To package the application as a “production” JAR in the target directory, type:

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify

Leveraging docker according to the selected Jhipster options

A number of possible options in using Jhipster are described in the README.md file of the project folder.

In case the JHipster Registry option was selected, the registry app can be run from the Docker image available in the application src/main/docker directory with:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/jhipster-registry.yml up

If you chose OAuth 2.0 as your authentication, Keycloak is used as the default identity provider. Running

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/keycloak.yml up

starts up Keycloak automatically. A number of other docker-compose scripts can be availabla in the src/main/docker/ directory, depending on the options set initially while generating the app. For instance it could well be that a mysql.yml docker-compose script is available to run a container with a mysql database required in dev mode. All of these docker-compose scripts can be run following the same docker-compose command pattern as stated above.

Jhipster Marketplace modules of interest

Kafka

Stripe Payment

Paypal

Blockchain

Links

JHipster Homepage

JDL Studio

JHipster github page