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Full Stack Development with JHipster

You're reading from   Full Stack Development with JHipster Build modern web applications and microservices with Spring and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476317
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Deepu K Sasidharan Deepu K Sasidharan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Modern Web Application Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with JHipster 3. Building Monolithic Web Applications with JHipster 4. Entity Modeling with JHipster Domain Language 5. Customization and Further Development 6. Testing and Continuous Integration 7. Going into Production 8. Introduction to Microservice Server-Side Technologies 9. Building Microservices with JHipster 10. Working with Microservices 11. Deploying with Docker Compose 12. Deploying to the Cloud with Kubernetes 13. Using React for the Client-Side 14. Best Practices with JHipster 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Gateway application generation


We will start by converting the monolithic application that we have generated into a microservice gateway application. 

Even though microservices are made up of different services inside, for end users it should be a single, unified product. There are a lot of services that are designed to work in a lot of different ways, but there should be a single entry point for users. Thus, we need a gateway application, since they form the frontend of your application. 

Segregate the internal contracts and services from external users. We may have application-level internal services that we shouldn't expose to external users, so these can be masked away. This also adds another level of security to the application.

Easier to mock services for testing help validate the services independently in integration testing.

Converting a monolithic application to a microservice gateway

We already have our monolithic application generated, as well as our entities. As a part of monolithic...

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