Goal and adoption of JHipster

The goal of JHipster is to provide developers a platform where you can focus on your business logic rather than worrying about wiring different technologies together, and also that provides a great developer experience. Of course, you can use available boilerplate within your organization or from the internet and try to wire them up together, but then you will be wasting a lot of time re-inventing the wheel. With JHipster, you will create a modern web application or microservice architecture with all the required technologies wired together and working out-of-the-box, such as the following:

• A robust and high-performance Spring Framework-based Java stack on the backend
• A rich mobile-first frontend with Angular or React supported by Bootstrap
• A battle-tested microservice architecture unifying Netflix OSS, Elastic stack, and Docker
• A great tooling and development workflow using Maven/Gradle, webpack, and Yarn/NPM
• Out-of-the-box continuous integration using Jenkins, Travis, or GitLab
• Excellent Docker support and support for orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Rancher, and Openshift out-of-the-box
• Out-of-the-box support for various cloud deployments
• Above all, great code with lots of best practices and industry standards at your fingertips

JHipster has been steadily increasing in popularity as Spring Boot and Angular gained momentum, and lots of developers have started to adopt them as the de facto frameworks for web development. As per official statistics at the time of writing (beginning of 2018), there are more than 5,000 applications generated per month and JHipster was installed around  1 million times. It has more than 400 contributors with official contributions from Google, RedHat, Heroku, and so on.