JHipster is a development platform that helps you go from zero to hero! JHipster can help you to create beautiful web applications and complex microservices architectures in a jiffy. JHipster also offers various tools to develop the applications further using business entities, and deploy them to various cloud services and platforms. At its core, JHipster is a Yeoman code generator that creates Spring Boot and Angular/React/Vue.js-based applications. It can create monolithic architectures as well as microservices architectures with every feature working out of the box.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Why you should use JHipster and how it helps compared to traditional development approaches
- The goal of JHipster
- The various server-side and client-side technology options available in JHipster
- Preparation of a development environment
- Installation of JHipster and required dependencies
Yeoman (http://yeoman.io) is a scaffolding tool that helps you to create code generators. You can use it to create any kind of application generator with the help of the built-in template engine and tools.