Creating an application
After installing JHipster, the next step is to create an application. Create a project directory with an appropriate name in your local machine, select this directory from Command Prompt, and execute the following command. The name of the project directory is given as gdp
, but it can be any valid name:
jhipster
Soon after hitting this command, JHipster will start to ask a series of questions, and will decide what has to be generated based on the answers given by the user, as follows:
- Which type of application would you like to create? There are four possible options to choose from, as follows:
- Monolithic application:This option is used to create a self-contained application. This is the recommended option to create a simple application, so we will choose this option.
- Microservice application:If you want to design an application based on a microservices architecture, you can choose this option.
- Microservice gateway:The microservice gateway is used to build a microservice...