philippd / generator-jhipster

Hipster stack for Java developers. Yeoman + Maven + Spring + AngularJS in one handy generator.

Hipster stack for Java developers

Presentation

This is a Yeoman generator, used to create a Yeoman + Maven + Spring + AngularJS project.

You can install and use it easily:

• See the Yeoman community generators page or
• Go get the official package on npmjs.org

Goals

Generate a complete and modern Web app, unifying:

• Maven on the server side
• Yeoman + Bower + Grunt on the client side

Usage

To generate your application, type:

yo jhipster

Once the application is generated, you can launch the Java server with Maven:

mvn jetty:run

The application will be available on http://localhost:8080

You can also run Grunt to work on the client-side JavaScript application:

grunt server

This should open up your Web browser, with live reload enabled, on http://localhost:9000. This Grunt server has a proxy to the REST endpoints on the Java server which we just launched (on http://localhost:8080/rest), so it should be able to do live REST requests to the Java back-end.

If you want to go further, and use hot reloading both on the client and the server side, please go to this Wiki page.

Technology stack on the server side

A complete Spring application:

• "development" and "production" profiles
• Spring Security
• Spring MVC REST + Jackson
• Spring Data JPA + Bean Validation
• Database updates with Liquibase

Ready to go into production :

• Monitoring with Metrics
• Caching with ehcache
• Optimized static resources (gzip filter, HTTP cache headers)
• Log management with Logback, configurable at runtime
• Builds a standard WAR file

Technology stack on the client side

Single Web page application :

• Responsive Web Design
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Compass / Sass for CSS design
• AngularJS

Easy installation of new libraries with Bower. Build, optimization and live reload with Grunt.

Copyright (C) 2013 Julien Dubois