JHipster

JHipster is a free and open-source application generator used to develop quickly a modern web application using AngularJS and the Spring Framework.

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 AngularJS and Bootstrap).

The term 'JHipster' comes from 'Java Hipster', as its initial goal was to use all the modern and 'hype' tools available at the time.^[1] Today, it has reached a more enterprise goal, with a strong focus on developer productivity, tooling and quality.^[2]

Major functionalities

• Generate a full stack application, with many options
• Generate CRUD entities
• Database migrations with Liquibase
• NoSQL databases support (Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Elasticsearch support
• Websockets support
• Automatic deployment to CloudFoundry, Heroku, OpenShift

Technology stack

On the client side:

• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Twitter Bootstrap
• AngularJS
• 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
• Spring MVC REST + Jackson
• Monitoring with Metrics
• Optional WebSocket support with Spring Websocket
• Spring Data JPA + Bean Validation
• Database updates with Liquibase
• Elasticsearch support
• MongoDB support
• Cassandra support

Out-of-the-box auto-configured tooling:

• Yeoman
• Grunt or Gulp.js
• BrowserSync
• Maven or Gradle

Book

A JHipster book ^[3] is being written by Matt Raible, the author of AppFuse.

See also

• MEAN (software bundle)

References

External links

• jhipster.github.io
• Github project