Automated frontend perfomance test with lighthouse for JHipster

The JHipster team always tries to generate code that performs well. For the backend code you can decide to use Gatling to generate perfomance tests. Most of the times Matt Raible is doing a lighthouse test for each release manually, but there is no automated regression testing for a generated application. When choosing Cypress as end-2-end testing framework one could use cypress-audit to automate the manual lighthouse test. This will be beneficial to the JHipster development to identify regressions and for JHipster users as they can test the frontend perfomance more easily. [Read More]