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I'm quite interested in exploring JHipster in depth since I like the idea of having a framework for generating a spring-microservice backend with modern react/angular. HOWEVER, I'm put off by the fact that JHipster uses its own language 'JDL' -- I don't want to be tied to the-JHipster ecosystem per se, I just want quality boilerplates to work from. What exactly is JDL? Can it be ignored/removed, or does using JHipster mean that you're sucked into learning yet more niche technologies that may or may not survive the test of time?










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    To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
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  • So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
    – Anastasius Vivaldus
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  • It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
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I'm quite interested in exploring JHipster in depth since I like the idea of having a framework for generating a spring-microservice backend with modern react/angular. HOWEVER, I'm put off by the fact that JHipster uses its own language 'JDL' -- I don't want to be tied to the-JHipster ecosystem per se, I just want quality boilerplates to work from. What exactly is JDL? Can it be ignored/removed, or does using JHipster mean that you're sucked into learning yet more niche technologies that may or may not survive the test of time?










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    To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 11 at 0:15












  • So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
    – Anastasius Vivaldus
    Nov 19 at 16:58










  • It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 19 at 18:53















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I'm quite interested in exploring JHipster in depth since I like the idea of having a framework for generating a spring-microservice backend with modern react/angular. HOWEVER, I'm put off by the fact that JHipster uses its own language 'JDL' -- I don't want to be tied to the-JHipster ecosystem per se, I just want quality boilerplates to work from. What exactly is JDL? Can it be ignored/removed, or does using JHipster mean that you're sucked into learning yet more niche technologies that may or may not survive the test of time?










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I'm quite interested in exploring JHipster in depth since I like the idea of having a framework for generating a spring-microservice backend with modern react/angular. HOWEVER, I'm put off by the fact that JHipster uses its own language 'JDL' -- I don't want to be tied to the-JHipster ecosystem per se, I just want quality boilerplates to work from. What exactly is JDL? Can it be ignored/removed, or does using JHipster mean that you're sucked into learning yet more niche technologies that may or may not survive the test of time?







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    To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 11 at 0:15












  • So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
    – Anastasius Vivaldus
    Nov 19 at 16:58










  • It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 19 at 18:53
















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    To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 11 at 0:15












  • So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
    – Anastasius Vivaldus
    Nov 19 at 16:58










  • It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
    – Jon Ruddell
    Nov 19 at 18:53










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To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
– Jon Ruddell
Nov 11 at 0:15






To generate a project and entities, you don't need to touch or see JDL. You can answer the prompts manually. More info at the top of the docs jhipster.tech/jdl
– Jon Ruddell
Nov 11 at 0:15














So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
– Anastasius Vivaldus
Nov 19 at 16:58




So is JDL only used at project creation? Or can one update a project by e.g. editing one's jdl config and then e.g. running some jhipster-update command?
– Anastasius Vivaldus
Nov 19 at 16:58












It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
– Jon Ruddell
Nov 19 at 18:53






It's only used to generate the entities (and optionally the app itself too). Then when you want to change an entity, you can update the JDL and re-import it. It only generates files for changed entities. If you used prompts to generate entities, you can export it into JDL with jhipster export-jdl as well
– Jon Ruddell
Nov 19 at 18:53














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I don't see the point of not using JDL (JHipster Domain Language) as it saves you a lot of time and it is very easy to learn. Having said that, you can only answer the jhipster generator questions and it will create the application JDL for you. Also you don't forcibly need to later generate entities using JDL, you can manually do your own code - which would be more time consuming. There is also an online JDL editor that could help https://start.jhipster.tech/jdl-studio/ .






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  • I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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I don't see the point of not using JDL (JHipster Domain Language) as it saves you a lot of time and it is very easy to learn. Having said that, you can only answer the jhipster generator questions and it will create the application JDL for you. Also you don't forcibly need to later generate entities using JDL, you can manually do your own code - which would be more time consuming. There is also an online JDL editor that could help https://start.jhipster.tech/jdl-studio/ .






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  • I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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I don't see the point of not using JDL (JHipster Domain Language) as it saves you a lot of time and it is very easy to learn. Having said that, you can only answer the jhipster generator questions and it will create the application JDL for you. Also you don't forcibly need to later generate entities using JDL, you can manually do your own code - which would be more time consuming. There is also an online JDL editor that could help https://start.jhipster.tech/jdl-studio/ .






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  • I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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I don't see the point of not using JDL (JHipster Domain Language) as it saves you a lot of time and it is very easy to learn. Having said that, you can only answer the jhipster generator questions and it will create the application JDL for you. Also you don't forcibly need to later generate entities using JDL, you can manually do your own code - which would be more time consuming. There is also an online JDL editor that could help https://start.jhipster.tech/jdl-studio/ .






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I don't see the point of not using JDL (JHipster Domain Language) as it saves you a lot of time and it is very easy to learn. Having said that, you can only answer the jhipster generator questions and it will create the application JDL for you. Also you don't forcibly need to later generate entities using JDL, you can manually do your own code - which would be more time consuming. There is also an online JDL editor that could help https://start.jhipster.tech/jdl-studio/ .







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  • I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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  • I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
– Anastasius Vivaldus
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I just cant stand the thought of having to learn yet another language. However, from what I gather, it's not what I'd call a language, rather, it's seems to be just conventions for a configuration file for setting up your hipster project.
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