Microservice application - notification service with NoSQL database

For an e-commerce website, it is really essential that orders are tracked and users are notified at the right moment. We will create a notification service which will notify users whenever their order status changes. 

Application generation

Let's generate our second microservice application (notification service) in the e-commerce-app folder. Create a new folder where you will keep the microservices application. Let's name the foldernotification. Go into the directory and start creating the application by running jhipster.

The first question we are asked is to select the type of application we would like to create. We have to choose Microservice application and then click Enter:

Then, we will select the default application name, notification:

Then, we will select the port for the application. Since we have selected 8080 for the monolithic application and 8081 for the invoice service, we will use port 8082 for the notification...