Let's get into action and build a production-grade web application using JHipster. Before we start, we need a use case. We will be building an e-commerce web application that manages products, customers, and their orders and invoices. The web application will use a MySQL database for production and will have an Angular front end. The UI for the actual shopping website will be different from the back office features, which will only be available for employees who have an administrator role. For this exercise, we will only be building a simple UI for the client-facing part. We will talk about other option as we go through this chapter.
In this chapter, we will:
- See how to create a monolithic web application using JHipster
- Walk through important aspects of the generated code
- See the security aspects of the generated application
- See how to run the application and tests
- See the generated frontend screens
- See the tools included that will ease further development
This chapter will require the use of a terminal (command prompt on windows) app throughout. You can the see previous chapter for more info about that.