How to install JHipster on Ubuntu

JHipster is like Sonata for PHP and Symfony, but I'd say it's simpler. Comparing to Symfony and Sonata, we get:

• similar entity generator.
• CRUD panels like in SonataAdminBundle
• user management system out of the box

According to https://jhipster.github.io/installation/ instruction, in Ubuntu we have to do folliwing steps [I assume you have Java 8 and Git already installed]:

Step 0 [optional]

Install Apache Tomcat :

Download Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org

$ sudo mkdir /opt/tomcat

$ sudo tar xvf apache-tomcat-8*tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat --strip-components=1

Start Tomcat:

$ sudo /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

You can stop it:

$ sudo /opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Step 1

Install Node.js

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -nodesource_setup.sh

$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

Step 2

Install Yeoman:

$ sudo npm install -g yo

In result I've got:

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✖ npm version

Your npm version is outdated.

Upgrade to the latest version by running:
npm install -g npm

so I did:

$ npm install -g npm

Yeoman and again:

$ sudo npm install -g yo

Now I've got :

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version

Everything looks all right!    

Step 3

Install Bower:

$ sudo npm install -g bower

Step 4

Install Gulp: 

$ sudo npm install -g gulp-cli

Step 5

Install JHipster: 

$ sudo npm install -g generator-jhipster