Generating an application with React client side

Let's dive in straight away and create a React application with JHipster. You will need to open a Terminal to run the commands:

1. Create a new folder and navigate to it by running mkdir jhipster-react && cd jhipster-react.
2. Now run the jhipster command in the Terminal. If you are running JHipster version 4.x instead of 5.x, then you will have to pass the experimental flag by running jhipster --experimental.

 

3. JHipster will start with prompts; let's select default options for everything except for the question Which *Framework* would you like to use for the client? For this question, choose [BETA] React and proceed.
4. Once all the prompts are completed, JHipster will generate the application and start installing dependencies before formatting the code using Prettier (https://prettier.io/) and starting the webpack build.

Note

You can run yarn prettier:format to format the client-side code anytime. It will also be automatically run whenever you commit...