JHipster without JDL

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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 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/ .