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first time using jHipster, browser hangs after grunt serve

I'm very familiar with yo angular (fullstack) apps, and so I expected the yo jhipster app scaffolding to perform in a similar way.

So, I'm running a new project using jhipster. I've installed everything, built my app with maven, created an entity, and started up the app with grunt serve

it just hangs forever.

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So, popping open the developer console, i'm seeing that there are no JS errors, and the initial page's GET request is just pending forever.

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Three questions immediately come to mind:

  1. what should I be seeing?
  2. is there a reason why the url wont resolve to anything?
  3. what do I do to load & view the app correctly?
Solution

  • I think you need to start up the server for backend (on a separate terminal window):

    • If using Maven: mvn spring-boot:run
    • If using Gradle: gradle bootRun

    If you check the Gruntfile.js in the root folder:

    browserSync: {
    dev: {
        bsFiles: {
            src : [
                ...
            ]
        }
    },
    options: {
        watchTask: true,
        proxy: "localhost:8080"
    }
},

    You find that the task browserSync is proxied to portal 8080, which is the server started by mvn spring-boot:run or gradle bootRun

    For your reference: http://jhipster.github.io/installation.html