JHipster IDE

JHipster IDE is an Xtext DSL which provides textual editing support of JHipster Domain Language files for popular IDEs and editors such as Eclipse, Visual Studio Code and Atom.

The following features are available:

Syntax Coloring
Error Checking
Auto-Completion
Formatting
Hover Information
Mark Occurences
Go To Declaration
Rename Refactoring
Toggle Comments
Outline / Structure View
Quick Fix Proposals
Find References
Folding

Furthermore, JHipster IDE generates automatically an UML diagram of the JDL file and provides an integration with the Eclipse terminal shell to call JHipster’s Yeoman generator.

Another nice feature is Xdocker (only for Eclipse available) which allows to edit, build and run Docker files and images generated by JHipster directly from the IDE.

Installation Prerequisites

See JHipster installation page

Eclipse installation

JHipster IDE is available in the Eclipse Marketplace. The easiest way to install it is to drag the following icon on the start page into your Eclipse or just open the marketplace dialog in Eclipse (Help > Eclipse Marketplace…) and search for JHipster.

Eclipse installation

See also this tutorial on Youtube how to install and use the IDE in Eclipse.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code installation

Visual Studio Code installation

Atom installation

Atom