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