Full Stack Development with JHipster

Generated code walkthrough

Now let's take a look at what has been generated. Let's open the application code in our favorite IDE/editor. Let's take a look at what has been generated for the Product entity.

You might have noticed that there is a .jhipster folder at the root of the project and if you look into it you will see a bunch of JSON files. Let's look at Product.json. It holds metadata about the generated entity and is used by JHipster to regenerate and edit an entity when needed:

{     "fluentMethods": true,     "relationships": [         {             "relationshipType": "many-to-one",             "relationshipName": "productCategory",             "otherEntityName": "productCategory",             "otherEntityField": "id"         }     ],     "fields": [         {             "fieldName": "name",  "fieldType": "String", ...