Building Apps with Caplin-cli

Caplin-cli is a command line module to create Node.js apps

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Node v7.6+

Installation

npm install -g caplin-cli

Initialising the Workspace

caplin-cli init

This will generate the following folder structure:

apps/
packages/
packages-caplin/

Create an app

caplin-cli create-app myapp j2ee-app

The newly created app will be placed in an apps folder. To start the app, cd into the newly created app directory run npm install and npm start. This app contains basic configuration for a jetty server.

Create a component

caplin-cli create-component MyComponent react src

This will create a react component called MyComponent in the src directory. If you do not sepcify arguments for the create-component command you will be given dropdown options for the component name, type and location.

More commands

For a list of available commands and options, use the help command

caplin-cli help