generator-jhipster-nodejs

generator-jhipster-nodejs, the official NodeJS blueprint that uses NestJS TypeScript Framework for your backend. We encourage you to use it and give us your feedback.

Notes

For the features of the last release refers to CHANGELOG.md.

Demo

The UI is inherited from standard JHipster app client. So only backend generation changes. For this, a live app running is less useful than the code and the app structure shows in:

The sample repo app with React client and Okta OAuth2

The sample repo app with Angular client and JWT auth

Greetings, nodejs Hipster!

This project adds nodejs for your backend, all TypeScript files generation, not Java!, to the JHipster application 😎. It is based on JHipster Blueprint 🔵, that is meant to be used in a JHipster application.

The generator applies this standard configuration for the NodeJS app:

NestJS base app with web controllers, swagger doc and JWT or OAuth2 passport auth services

The app starts with four seed users (admin, basic user and anonymous roles), as standard JHipster monolithic app, with SQLite for dev and configurable sql db for prod

The app uses TypeORM and asks you a question for another sql db

TypeORM is also used for the automatically migration and versioning of the database scripts

The app runs also as a full stack app including, for the monolitich choice, the Angular/React client with the home page set for NHipster and CRUD operations for entity generated with subgenerator and jdl import

A previous of a jwt auth app:

Prerequisites

As this is a JHipster blueprint, we expect you have JHipster and its related tools already installed:

Installing JHipster

🚀 How to get started

Make sure you have followed the JHipster installation guide and that both yeoman and jhipster are installed.
Install the package with npm install -g generator-jhipster-nodejs
And generate the application with nhipster

Installation Details

With NPM

To install this blueprint:

npm install -g generator-jhipster-nodejs

To update this blueprint:

npm update -g generator-jhipster-nodejs

With Yarn

To install this blueprint:

yarn global add generator-jhipster-nodejs

To update this blueprint:

yarn global upgrade generator-jhipster-nodejs

🚦 What we have now

This is a blueprint that is runnable by:

jhipster --blueprints nodejs

However, it also ships with an nhipster CLI that you can use as a shortcut.

✅ General App generation

nhipster

✅ Controller generation

nhipster spring-controller <controller-name>

✅ Service generation

nhipster spring-service <service-name>

✅ Entity generation

nhipster entity <entity-name>

✅ JDL Entity model support generation

nhipster import-jdl my_file.jdl

For the last, in the test-integration/samples/FOLDER_NAME-jdl there are some examples of jdl models.

Using Docker

Download the Dockerfile:

mkdir docker
cd docker
wget https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster-nodejs/raw/master/docker/Dockerfile

Build the Docker images:

docker build -t jhipster-generator-nodejs:latest .

Make a folder where you want to generate the Application:

mkdir app
cd app

Run the generator image in one of the two following options.

Run the generator from image to generate service:

docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/home/jhipster/app jhipster-generator-nodejs

Run and attach interactive shell to the generator docker container to work from inside the running container:

docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/home/jhipster/app jhipster-generator-nodejs /bin/bash

🛠 Steps to develop a generator feature and test it

Shell steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster-nodejs.git
$ cd generator-jhipster-nodejs
$ git checkout -b feature/my-feature
$ npm install
$ npm link
$ cd ..
$ git clone https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster.git
$ cd generator-jhipster
$ git checkout v6.8.0
$ npm install
$ npm link
$ cd ..
$ mkdir test-generation
$ cd test-generation
$ npm link generator-jhipster
$ npm link generator-jhipster-nodejs

Now you will develop under the generator-jhipster-nodejs that you have cloned with git. After finish, to generate the app and check your feature, run in test-generation folder: