Full Stack Development with JHipster

Adding a shopping cart for the application

In Chapter 5, Customization and Further Development, we saw how the generated application can be customized to make it look and behave like an e-commerce website. As mentioned there, it is not enough to make the application truly usable. The following are some of the features that you can try to implement to make the application more feature complete:

1. Add a simple shopping cart feature on the client-side: 
   1. Create a ProductOrder object to hold the OrderItems. The ProductOrder is related to the Customer so tag it to the customer using details of the currently logged-in user.
   2. Add an add to cart button to the product items in the list. On clicking the button, create a new OrderItem for the Product ...