JHipster

JHipster, much like Spring initializr, is a generator to create a boilerplate backend application, but also with an integrated front end implementation in React, Vue or Angular. In their own words, it "Is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures." (by jhipster)

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JHipster reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of JHipster. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-29.
  • Renovate & Dependabot: The New Malware Delivery System
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2026
    Even worse, 95 (60%) of those pull requests were merged into the main branch, 50 of them by a bot user, without any user interaction. This led to the malicious package being pushed to production code in less than an hour, as showcased by the jhipster/generator-jhipster repository.
  • Drive JHipster with your AI agent: introducing jhipster-mcp (v0.0.4)
    3 projects | dev.to | 26 May 2026
    TL;DR β€” jhipster-mcp is an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets an AI agent generate and evolve JHipster applications for you. You describe what you want in plain language; the agent writes JDL and drives the JHipster CLI. It's on npm β€” point your MCP host at it with one line. v0.0.4 is the first public release.
  • My Journey to the JHipster Core Team
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Jul 2025
    My first contribution to the jhipster-generator was on 07/2021: https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/pull/15724. After blogging for a while, I decided to contribute to the JHipster Lite project and wrote about the experience here: https://renanfranca.github.io/how-did-i-earn-money-to-fix-an-issue-from-an-open-source-software.html. Then, I made 10 contributions to the JHipster Lite project (https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-lite/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A%40me+is%3Aclosed).
  • Year After Switching from Java to Go: Our Experiences
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025
  • Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2024
    Interesting that you ended up going all the way to Rust land instead of just using one of the multiple tools that have been created to help with this, like:

    * Spring Boot (it has a UI to create projects where you pick Java version, DB, build tool, some libs etc): https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot

    * JHipster - the nuclear option, pick what you want a la carte: https://www.jhipster.tech/

    * JBang - a cute CLI for this: https://www.jbang.dev/

    * Maven Archetypes - the old fashioned way (existed before "create-app" kind of tools appeared): https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...

    And most IDEs also have "new project" wizzards.

  • How to Build Efficient CRUD Apps?
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Aug 2024
    JHipster: A development platform for generating, developing, and deploying full-stack web applications based on Spring Boot and front-end frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.
  • Java Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2024
    An easy way to get a pre-configured Keycloak instance is to use JHipster's jhipster-sample-app-oauth2 application. It gets updated with every JHipster release. You can clone it with the following command:
  • Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2023
  • Simpler way to develop CRUD apps?
    4 projects | /r/angular | 19 Apr 2023
    If you want a Spring backend with an Angular Frontend check out https://www.jhipster.tech. This is very nice for CRUD stuff.
  • How hard is it to make one ?
    1 project | /r/developersIndia | 30 Mar 2023
    Use https://www.jhipster.tech/
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