Presented by Andrej Gasteovski at SkopjeTechMeetup 8. Building a modern web (or mobile) application requires a lot of tools, frameworks and techniques. Java Hipster a.k.a. JHipster is a free and open-source Yeoman generator that can develop a modern web application using Spring Boot and AngularJS with tons of options in just a few clicks. We will see the full stack that JHipster is using, what can be done, pros and cons and a simple application generated by JHipster.

1. Andrej Gasteovski
SkopjeTechMeetup 8 | March 1st, Piazza Liberta
Intro to
JHipster

2. What is a hipster?
ˈhipstər/
noun
informal
1. someone who follows the latest trends and
fashions, especially those regarded as being
outside the cultural mainstream.

3. Trends in web development
Server-side
Annotations
Microservices
Environments
Monitoring
Front-end
JS Frameworks
HTML5 / CSS3
CSS Preprocessors
Mobile First
Front-end optimization

5. Stand-alone Spring application
Embedded Tomcat, Jetty..
Simple Maven configuration
Metrics, health checks, externalized configuration
No XML configuration
Spring Boot

6. Most popular JavaScript Framework
Model - View - Controller
Single Page Application
Two Way Data Binding, Templates, Directives..
Angular2

11. Main features
Generating Spring Boot / AngularJS application
Setting Spring Security
Spring Boot Metrics Dashboard
REST API with Spring MVC
JPA Support and NoSQL
CRUD Generation
Internationalization

12. Demo Time

13. JHipster 4.0.0
Angular 2 support
npm + bower -> Yarn
Gulp -> Webpack
‘AAA’ ranking on Sonar