JHipster

	Original JHipster logo
Developer(s)	Julien Dubois and contributors
Initial release	21 October 2013; 11 years ago
Stable release	7.3.1 / October 19, 2021; 3 years ago
Repository	github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster ;
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	Apache 2 License
Website	www.jhipster.tech

JHipster is a free and open-source application generator used to quickly develop modern web applications and Microservices using Angular or React (JavaScript library) 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 Angular/React and Bootstrap). It can also create microservice stack with support for Netflix OSS, Docker and Kubernetes.

The term 'JHipster' comes from 'Java Hipster', as its initial goal was to use all the modern and 'hype' tools available at the time.^[2] Today, it has reached a more enterprise goal, with a strong focus on developer productivity, tooling and quality.^[3]

Major functionalities

Generate full stack applications and microservices, with many options
Generate CRUD entities, directly or by scaffolding
Database migrations with Liquibase
NoSQL databases support (Cassandra, MongoDB, Neo4j)
Elasticsearch support
Websockets support
Automatic deployment to CloudFoundry, Heroku, OpenShift, AWS

Technology stack

On the client side:

HTML5 Boilerplate
Twitter Bootstrap
AngularJS
Angular 2+
React
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 (including Social Logins)
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
Neo4j support

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

Yeoman
Webpack or Gulp.js
BrowserSync
Maven or Gradle
Editor for Datamodeling (visual and textual)

Books

A JHipster mini book ^[4] is written by Matt Raible, the author of AppFuse.

A book on "Full stack development with JHipster" ^[5] is written by Deepu K Sasidharan, the co-lead of JHipster and Sendil Kumar N, a core team member of JHipster. Reviewed by Julien Dubois and Antonio Goncalves.