Random thoughts
I saw this come across the Spring blog this week. They are going to be doing a webinar for JHipster. As I mentioned in a previous post I am very interested in JHipster as it combines 2 things I am interested in learning Spring Boot and Angular. If you are interested in checking it out sign up here.
Also as a completely unrelated side note, why doesn’t projects.spring.io support HTTPS? This is 2015 and all sites should really support secure access.
I was reading the Spring Blog the other day and I came across this story. I was intrigued because I found the name funny so I read the post and watched the embedded youtube video and was completely blown away. Take all the excitement I had for Spring Boot after SpringOne and multiply it by 10. Not only does this build on top of Spring Boot it integrates in all the trendy front end technologies that are in use today. All the pain of bootstrapping and setting up a full on website is taken away while they do all the work for you.
JHipster is built on Spring Boot, Spring Security, Node.js, Angular.js, and Yeoman. Basically it manages to boil down every trendy front end technology with every trendy back end technology and do all the integration for you so you can start ripping code. They support Maven and Gradle as well as Grunt or Gulp. I admit I had never really heard of Yeoman or looked into it, but it is amazing. You can really automate a ton of your repetitive tasks with it so you can focus on solving the real problems you are facing. This project seems like a startup companies dream since all that monotonous configuration can just be skipped and you can focus on getting your application up and running and just out there.
This also fits in with my themes for the year where I wanted to spend more time working with Spring Boot as well as learning Angular and now I can all in the context of trying to build a small project under JHipster. Anyway the technology looks amazing and I would encourage everyone to give it a look and see what you think. Oh and a pro-tip if you are a non-hipster like myself running windows, when you do yo jhipster to generate your app, do it from inside of your git-bash window as if you use a normal windows cmd prompt it seems to fail in the course of generating the app.