Get Ready for UI5-Development on Your Local Machine

Yeoman is an Open Source scaffolding tool for modern web-apps. It helps you to kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive.

Install the module globally:

npm install -g yo

In order to use Yeoman to create SAPUI5 projects, we need to install a plugin (another npm module). Yeoman recognizes all plugins automatically on the basis of the generator- prefix of the module.

npm install -g generator-easy-ui5

This plugin has also been published on GitHub.

Use the following command to test whether the installation has been successful.

yo

You should see the Easy Ui5 generator in the list of generators:

This plugin has also been published on GitHub.

Cloud-native applications are being ship as so called mta archives. The Multi-target Application Archive Builder is a standalone command-line tool that builds a deployment-ready multi-target application archive .mtar file. You can leverage npm to install this tool as well:

npm install -g mbt

Run mbt --help to see all available commands.

You might be able to skip this step. Usually, users of unix-based OS already have make preinstalled. Verify that make is installed with.

make -v

If you are using Windows and need to install make by following these instructions:

choco install make