A quick overview of JHipster, the Spring Boot and AngularJS application generator.

1. JHipster
overview
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2. Julien Dubois
JHipster creator & lead developer
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@java_hipster

3. A few words on Ippon Technologies…
Funded in 2003
+ 220 consultants
Specialized in Java, Cloud & Big Data
Focus on innovation and technical expertise
Offices in France, USA, Australia

4. - Creates a full-stack application in record time
- Generates a Spring Boot back-end
- Generates an AngularJS front-end
- Configures tooling
- Provides best-practices and high-quality
code
- Shortens time-to-market and increases
productivity
- Brings developer happiness
- 100% Open Source - no tricks!
What JHipster does

5. Some statistics on JHipster
- 16 developers in the « core » team
- 247 contributors, including official contributions
from Google and Heroku
- 5,150 GitHub stars
- 300,000 downloads
- conferences all around the world
- 1 book by Matt Raible

6. Developers love JHipster

7. Companies love JHipster

8. - Several independent studies show a 6-week gain at
project startup
- Faster project turn-around with hot reload of Java +
JavaScript code: huge productivity gains in the long run,
and much better developer experience
- High-quality code and modular design allow projects to
grow painlessly
- Ready for production out-the-box, with support from major
cloud providers
Key productivity gains

9. • HTML5 Boilerplate
• Twitter Bootstrap
• AngularJS
• Responsive Web
Design
• Websockets
• Angular Translate
Technology stack
• Spring Boot
• Spring Security
• JPA, MongoDB,
Cassandra
• Elasticsearch
• Ehcache, HazelCast
• Metrics
• Maven, Gradle
• BrowserSync
• JUnit, Gatling,
Karma, Protractor
• Docker, Docker
Compose
• Cloud Foundry,
Heroku, AWS
Front-end Back-end Tooling

10. Microservices: the big picture

11. Let’s code

12. - Videos & tutorials
- http://jhipster.github.io/video-tutorial/
- JDL Studio: online & free graphical editor for JHipster
projects
- http://jhipster.github.io/jdl-studio/
- JHipster Marketplace: specialized modules, free for everyone
to use
- http://jhipster.github.io/modules/marketplace
- JHipster Meetups and conferences
- News section at https://jhipster.github.io/
Where to go next?

13. More information on JHipster
Website: http://jhipster.github.io/
Code: https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster
Twitter: @java_hipster